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 (…
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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…
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.…