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…
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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…
Student Guest Post: 10 things I wish I knew in my first semester as a first gen student
Editor’s Note: This post was sent to use by one of our Anthropology Honours students, Brieal M-T (@mxmoireabh for the Twitter savvy), who has been very open with…
Decolonizing Conservation
(John Aini and Paige West, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Photo by JC Salyer) Collaboration In June 2018 John Aini and Paige West presented joint keynote lectures at…
Embracing biological and cultural diversity: An interview with Dr Jerome Lewis
Below you will find a link to an interview with CAOS co-founder Jerome Lewis. This interview covers Jerome’s research into hunter-gatherer societies, his deep-seated interest in ways of…
I Have Always Felt at Home in Libraries: An Update from AAA Intern Sam Ropa
An update from 2018 AAA Intern Sam Ropa: I have always felt at home in libraries. Most academics relate to this feeling—the one that only comes when one…
A British Schooner and the Big City: An Update from AAA Intern Evan Olinger
An update from 2018 AAA Intern Evan Olinger: My name is Evan Olinger, and I am interning at the Underwater Archaeology Branch of the Naval History and Heritage…
Eight Years Later: Report from the Field #1
It has been eight years since I’ve been here – here is Iringa town, Iringa Region, Tanzania. Suffice to say much can change in eight years but things…
Andreas Malm: In Wilderness is the Liberation of the World
If you have been following Andreas Malm’s work, such as his latest book The Progress of This Storm, you’ll be familiar with his latest project of bringing realism…
Anthropology of Coptic Christianity Since 2012
I was having dinner in Seoul recently with an old friend who taught in Egypt back around 2000. Living in East Asia for the past decade, he hasn’t…
反对声音自然主义 | Against Sonic Naturalism
At the end of last year, I had the privilege to be part of the best academic conference ever – full spoilers, it’s called Tuning Speculation, it’s broadly…
Inaugural Summer Institute for Department Leaders
Ed Liebow, Executive Director More than 40 department leaders (chairs and directors of graduate/undergraduate studies) came to Washington, DC last week for two days of intensive workshops in…
Women’s Scholarship in Political Ecology
On June 20th, 2018, I was honored to give one of the keynote addresses at the 2018 POLLEN conference in Oslo, Norway. The talk I gave, “Critical Approaches…
Thailand – the Land of Smiles?
av Lotta Granbom Thailand – the Land of Smiles som det ofta kallas i reklamen – har blivit ett av de populäraste resmålen för många västerlänningar att…
Calais: Eighteen Months On
by Elisa Sandri Calais has frequently made the headlines in the last two decades. The history of this border as a focal point for migration dates back to…