Anthropology As Announcement: We Have a New One!
It’s been a busy start to the new (academic) year, despite the lack of actual visible activity on this blog, as we’ve had some behind-the-scenes action (which mean…
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Anthropology As Announcement: We Have a New One!
It’s been a busy start to the new (academic) year, despite the lack of actual visible activity on this blog, as we’ve had some behind-the-scenes action (which mean…
What Jimmie got right… Anthropologists and Sverigedemokraterna
Steven Sampson: A few short weeks ago, nearly one out of six Swedish voters cast their vote for Sverigedemokraterna (SD), the party led by the young alumnus from…
Minnen av det förlorade och trösten i ting under palestinsk exil
Nina Gren: De flesta av oss har saker i sin ägo som påminnelse om någon vi har förlorat, som är sörjd och saknad. Jag har kökshanddukarna min mormor…
Anthropology in Norway – a potted history
Taking a few steps back, I used the invitation to write an essay about anthropology in Norway as a pretext for delving slightly more deeply into the beginnings…
“The Workingmen’s Colony”: Labor Conflict and Historic Preservation in Campbell, Ohio
In August, I visited the town of Campbell, a former hub of Ohio’s steel industry. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company established operations there in 1902, on the banks…
Are We All Going Crazy?
The Peace Wall, Belfast (Photo by Paul Stoller) Belfast, Northern Ireland. I have a confession: I’m not sleeping well these days. I used to sleep well, but recently…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXVIII
Apologies for the very long delay in website updates! We are now really on “Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part One Billion”. Here’s what happened on a personal…
From Reciprocity to Relationality: Anthropological Possibilities
In September 2018 the wonderful journal Cultural Anthropology published a special edition of their Hot Spots series that I edited. You can find the link to webpage for…
Looking South Toward Granada
The Alhambra (Photo by Paul Stoller) There has been much recent discussion about structural inequalities in the academy—especially in anthropology. In European and North American anthropology there …
Margaret Provost and Wilma Crowe: Our Great Leaders are Passing
Today, September 7th, 2018, is the funeral of Margaret Provost. Margaret is perhaps the most important leader of the Grand Ronde tribe for the past 50 years. She…
What Is Going on with the Weather?
Prompted by this summer’s heatwaves, I have just contributed some thoughts on the Ethnographic Practice in Industry Conference (EPIC) blog about climate change and its struggle with…
Ethnographic Ableism: Structural Silencing of Physical Disability in Anthropological Research
Micha Rahder is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Geography & Anthropology at Louisiana State University. Her research centers on the intersection of science and social…
Research and Rewards: An Update from AAA Intern Evan Olinger
I can and can’t believe it’s my last week here in DC. In one respect my time here has gone about as fast as I thought it would,…
We Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves: An Update from AAA Intern Sam Ropa
“We are the stories we tell ourselves” — Aja Monet Hello, Associated American Anthropologists! A dispatch from your cultural anthropologist in DC: This city is steeped in stories.…
System, Space and Ecobiopolitics: A Conversation with Valerie Olson About “Into the Extreme”
[This week we present excerpts of an interview with Valerie Olson conducted by Lisa Messeri focused on Olson’s new book, Into the Extreme (U Minnesota P, 2018).…
Language is Social: A Quick, Slightly Angry, Introduction by Way of Media Response
A couple of articles have crossed my Twitter path in the last few days that are, from a linguistic anthropological perspective, shockingly ignorant. They come not from random…
Fully Funded PhD: Water Security in Cape Town
Cameron Harrington and I have received full funding for a PhD student interested in the politics and ethics of water security in Cape Town. Details of the call…
A Guerilla Anthropologist Looks to the Future
We live in a world filled with seemingly insoluble problems. Carbon emissions have increased at such alarming rates that climate experts have had to push forward their dire…
Flourishing diversity: being contemporary in the Anthropocene
Jerome Lewis University College London ‘Progress! Develop! Modernize!’ are concepts that destroy our ability to be contemporary. Such directives push those to whom they are uttered to put…
Fates of Forests in Borneo: A 40-Year Retrospective
By F. E. “Jack” Putz, University of Florida § After barreling through rural Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) for several hours in a double-cabbed pick-up I was grateful when a bed-rider…
Call for Posts: Natural Histories
Landskapsstudie från Barbizon. By Carl Larsson, via Wikimedia Commons. {{PD-US}} Long-term field research in a single locale has been central to the environmental sciences, including environmental ant…