Jonestown: 40 Years Later
Until the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the mass suicides-massacre at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978 represented the largest number of man-caused civilian deaths in a single event in…
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T̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶t̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶H̶A̶U̶. Good News! The Free-to-Readers Version of The Expressive Lives of Elders
Good news everyone. The free-to-download-and-read version of the latest title in the Material Vernaculars series–The Expressive Lives of Elders: Folklore, Art, and Aging edited by Jon Kay is…
Jerome Lewis and Hannah Knox In Discussion
A recent discussion between CAoS co-founder Jerome Lewis and UCL Associate Professor Hannah Knox, in which they discuss public anthropology in the context of climate change and digital…
CTI (Indigenous Advocacy Centre) and CAoS (Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability) win the Brazilian Newton Prize 2018.
Announced on November 13th 2018 in Brasília, the £200,000 Newton Prize for projects demonstrating the best science and innovation to address global challenges through partnerships was awarded to…
Is As-Sisi Seeking Legitimization Through Repression?
“Sisi sworn in for second Egyptian presidential term amid crackdown on critics,” read the headline of the Reuter story on President As-Sisi assuming his second term in office.…
Ep. #26 Mining Banaba: Katerina Teaiwa talks mining phosphate & decolonising modern anthropology
“The body of the people is in that landscape so when it’s mined and crushed and dug up, you’re not just doing it with rock, you’re also doing…
Google Celebrates Native Artist in November 9th Doodle
A guest post by Emily Buhrow Rogers. A carved bear by Amanda Crowe (Eastern Band Cherokee) from the collections of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University.…
The Underlying Hope of Anthropology: Reflecting on the Work of Jane Hill
This past week, the world of linguistic anthropology – and the world in general, though that world is presumably less conscious of the loss – lost a giant…
The Underlying Hope of Anthropology: Reflecting on the Work of Jane Hill
This past week, the world of linguistic anthropology – and the world in general, though that world is presumably less conscious of the loss – lost a giant…
Georgien ist viel reicher
Die Buchmesse in Frankfurt ist schon ein paar Tage vorbei. Noch immer stapeln sich Bücher zu Georgien, Sachbücher und Belletristik, auf meinem Schreibtisch. Auf Monate und vielleicht Jahre…
Color is culture (disruption watch)
Watching for the future feels optional. Watching for disruption, that’s more urgent. One way to look for disruption is to watch our color palette. Cause color is culture.…
Framing The Revolution In Chinese
It will come as no surprise to most of us that how the Egyptian Revolution, and the Arab Spring more generally, was covered in global media would depend…
Should you major in Cultural Anthropology?
A first-year student in my Anthropology 101 course emailed to let me know that they found the class readings intriguing and that they loved to learn about cultural…
Should you major in Cultural Anthropology?
A first-year student in my Anthropology 101 course emailed to let me know that they found the class readings intriguing and that they loved to learn about cultural…
“The Hope Is in Organizing:” An Interview with Iconic Farmworker Activist Dolores Huerta
Post author Andre Fernando Biehl is a junior at Princeton High School in Princeton, NJ. As part of an independent social science project, he has been working with…
Five Things You Should Know About the “Migrant Caravan”
We are anthropologists who work with migrants and refugees, many of whom are fleeing for their lives. And we want to set the record straight. We conduct research…
My new encyclopedia article about Marshall Sahlins is now available… for very wealthy libraries
It took a while, but I have a short encyclopedia entry about Marshall Sahlins in Wiley’s International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. After a long period of being hostile to secondary sources…
Anthrocasts: some things I learned starting an anthropology podcast
If you can, cultivate relationships with some people who will give you honest feedback, always make it clear to your listeners that you welcome their point of view,…
At the Estonian National Museum
#fulbrightspecialist #fulbright #exchangeourworld This is the third of three anticipated posts on my fall 2019 visit to Estonia (1st, 2nd). A great resource for the University of Tartu’s…
An Anthropologist Confronts the Culture of Hate
The Wall of Terror in Berlin, Gestapo and SS Headquarters (Photo by Paul Stoller) Even though I was long ago the object of anti-Semitic scorn and abuse, I…
Clearing the Land and Making all Indians Good: The Massacre at Bear River, Utah
In 1863, the California Volunteers under Colonel Patrick E. Connor (3rd Volunteer Regiment, California Cavalry), massacred either 300 or three thousand Ute (Shoshone) Indians in Cash Valley…
Assessing Value: Reflections on the Royal Alberta Museum
I spend a lot of time these days angry; there is so much to be rightfully angry about and I want to write about it all but don’t…
Assessing Value: Reflections on the Royal Alberta Museum
I spend a lot of time these days angry; there is so much to be rightfully angry about and I want to write about it all but don’t…