Weaving the World: Workshops on Evocative Ethnographic Writing
For several years I have had the pleasure of teaching three to four-day workshops on ethnographic writing. I have found the workshops to be rewarding and satisfying. They…
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Tightening the belt – The Anthropology of Consumerism
Did you spend too much over the holidays trying to spoil your dearest and nearest friends and family? Did you decide to travel to see loved ones? Eat…
Tightening the belt – The Anthropology of Consumerism
Did you spend too much over the holidays trying to spoil your dearest and nearest friends and family? Did you decide to travel to see loved ones? Eat…
Now I am 17
I started this blog seventeen years about today, and according to my usual habit I’m writing an annual blog post about its past, present, and future. In May…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXIX
Hello! Once again I was remiss in updating this website with everything I’ve been up to for the past few months, due to the sheer exhaustion caused by…
Methodists in Oregon
Reverend Jason Lee established the first Methodist Mission near Champoeg in 1835. By 1839 the mission had been damaged by flood waters and Lee established another farm and school…
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays from my partner and I!
Edith Turner and the Anthropology of Collective Joy
Edith Turner Visiting with my students Shane Metivier, Erica Walters and Sarah Sutton at the AAA Annual Meetings in Washington DC 2014 Photo by Erica Walters Note: Earlier…
The Internet & Democracy: Have We Learned Anything?
In the first wake of the Egyptian uprisings, and their framing as a “Facebook” revolution or Twitter revolution or “social media revolution” there was a lot of Utopian discours…
Using Multimodality to Provide Holistic Context and Promote Engaged Learning in Tajen: Interactive
By Annie Tucker (Elemental Productions) A recent piece in American Anthropologist, “The Balinese Cockfight Reimagined: Tajen: Interactive and the Prospects for a Multimodal Anthropology,” provided…
Using Multimodality to Provide Holistic Context and Promote Engaged Learning in Tajen: Interactive
By Annie Tucker (Elemental Productions) A recent piece in American Anthropologist, “The Balinese Cockfight Reimagined: Tajen: Interactive and the Prospects for a Multimodal Anthropology,” provided…
To Jared From Uncle Paul, the Anthropologist
Dear Jared, So, it’s been some time since I last wrote you. You’re a busy and important person, so maybe you don’t remember that we may be related. …
Getting Into Grad School
This might seem like an odd post because it is only tangentially related to Egypt. But it is based on lessons learned while I was the director of…
Reflections on Anthropology and Human Rights
Members of the AAA’s Members’ Programmatic, Advisory, and Advocacy Committee (MPAAC) reflect on the relationship between anthropology and human rights in honor of Human Rights Day and the…
Beth Comstock and Kara Swisher on Irritants and De-riskers (coming to a corporate culture near you.)
[This essay was published on Medium on Sunday (December 2)]. This is a wonderful interview. Two smart people expressing themselves at speed with power and precision. Swisher stops from…
Changing Its Tune
Back in 2012 I blogged about MidEast Tunes (mideasttunes.com) one of the largest Arabic music sites in the world. I just updated my old post to fix the…
Make Time to Watch “The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song and the Story of Intangible Cultural Heritage”
Don’t miss the recent documentary film “The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song, and the Story of Intangible Cultural Heritage”. by Áslaug Einarsdóttir and Valdimar Tr.…
Hacking the Homeland Hack
Earlier this year I published a post describing how back in 2015 three artists — Heba Amin, Caram Kapp and Stone — were hired to create background graffiti…
CFP: Limitations and Adaptations: Negotiating Aesthetics, Power, and Positionality
I am happy to share the call for papers for the 12th joint student folklore conference organized by the students at Indiana University and the Ohio State University.…
The Miseducation of the Public and the Erasure of Native Americans
This post was submitted by Lewis Borck (Faculty of Archaeology, Universiteit Leiden) and Ashleigh Thompson (School of Anthropology, University of Arizona). Recently while cruising through a social me…
An anthropological perspective on Sverigedemokraterna
Kristofer Lindh: Steven Sampson (15-10-18) raises the question if there is anything social anthropologists could say to illuminate the situation of Sweden in relation to the rise of…
Reflections on the AAA, Part 1: On Speculative Anthropology
Editor’s note: This year, two of our people (the Linguistic One and the Cultural One) went to the American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. This…
Reflections on the AAA, Part 1: On Speculative Anthropology
Editor’s note: This year, two of our people (the Linguistic One and the Cultural One) went to the American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. This…
Reporting On Egypt, From China
There is an account in Chapter Three of Pál Nyíri’s Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World in which a couple of Chinese correspondents reflect…