Museum Anthropology Has a Lot to Offer Public Anthropology!
This post was submitted by AAA member Jen Shannon, curator and associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado’s Museum of Natural History and department of…
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The R-word and the G-word: On counting and accountability in the case of the Rohingya
Given the sensitivity of this issue, this article was previously published anonymously on the blog operated by the former AAA Committee for Human Rights. The author is currently writing…
The Gringo Policies and Addictions That Drove Jakelin Caal From Raxruha
Liza Grandia, Ph.D. (cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Native American Studies at University of California-Davis) is the author of Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce among t…
Language, Accommodation, and the View from Whiteness
I want to take a minute to make a quick point about the underlying implications of several stories that have circulated in the media over the last couple…
Language, Accommodation, and the View from Whiteness
I want to take a minute to make a quick point about the underlying implications of several stories that have circulated in the media over the last couple…
Lokalvalg i Tyrkia: står det noe på spill?
31. mars er det lokalvalg i Tyrkia. Under de rådende politiske omstendigheter – med en stadig mer autoritær president som har omfattende kontroll over parlamentet, rettsvesen, media og…
The ’60 Minutes’ as-Sisi Interview as Media Event
“What was he thinking?” is the question people keep asking about General as-Sisi’s Jan. 6 interview on 60 Minutes. It was interesting to watch the interview, which was…
Love and the Pursuit of Home after War
Among Acholis, ideals of home and a good life are resilient even if everyday realities increasingly diverge from such aspirations. There is a tendency to think about love…
The Easiest Silverstein
Michael Silverstein is an important thinker whose work spans anthropology, psychology, and linguistics. I’m deeply indebted to him intellectually, and benefitted immensely from his service on m…
THoR’s Take
Ruramisai Charumbira & Michael Toggweiler Welcome to THoR, also known as Taking the Humanities on the Road!THoR is an Ideas-and-Action Lab at the interdisciplinary Walter Benjamin Kolleg (…
THoR’s Take
Ruramisai Charumbira & Michael Toggweiler Welcome to THoR, also known as Taking the Humanities on the Road!THoR is an Ideas-and-Action Lab at the interdisciplinary Walter Benjamin Koll…
Back to School: More Notes from the Academic Underground
There is always a buzz in the air when university students return to campuses to begin their spring semester courses. In these troubled times, what can they expect…
Someday we will all play for the Patriots
Tom Brady says new plays were inserted into the Patriot’s playbook on Sunday. “At the team hotel, the Westin Crown Center in Kansas City, the offensive players were…
A university is not a factory
Keir Martin and Thomas Hylland Eriksen Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo This article was translated into Norwegian and published online at morgenbladet.no on 17 January 2019.…
New Book – Our history is the future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Nick Estes has been writing about Indigenous resistance at Standing Rock in powerful ways, so his new book coming in just over one month’s time is one I…
If anthropology is a humanity, which humanity is it?
Anthropologists are notoriously unwilling to commit to being either a science or a humanity. Sometimes there are pragmatic reasons for this — even my most humanistic of colleagues…
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…
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…