By Laura Maillard and Carole Baudin, User-Centered Product Design Group, HAUTE ECOLE ARC ENGINEERING – HES-SO Illegal gold mining in the Amazon region of Peru potentially causes a variety of…
Cumbia sonidera is Mexico’s bass-heavy, sound-system reinterpretation of music originally emanating from the Colombian northwest. During performances, the sonideros (DJs) mix songs and get on the mic …
“Africa in the World: Shifting Boundaries and Knowledge Production,” a joint conference of AAA and the African Studies Association begins May 25th in Johannesburg, South Africa. The confe…
I have been on a book tour for the past few weeks, and will be back on it again in early June. Upcoming dates: 6/7: Milwaukee, Boswell Book…
At the Culture Camp in June, we will be applying our knowledge of American culture to the following topics. 1: Futures of work (the physical, hierarchical and emotional…
American culture is a dynamic thing. It is busting out all over. There are several ways to content with this blooming confusion, and we will look at several…
Yesterday we talked about platforms for consumer creativity. Today we will talk about platforms for the producer creativity. The corporation was meant to serve as this platform. It…
What happened to mass culture, mass marketing, and mass media? Well, several things. One is the inclination of consumers to make their own culture. Once passive recipients of…
This just in: I have a new book chapter out on the Egyptian uprisings. The title is “Mediated Experience in the Egyptian Revolution” and it appears in Digital…
This post was submitted by Dr. Evelyn Dean-Olmsted, University of Puerto Rico; Dr. Isabel Rivera-Collazo, University of San Diego/Scripps Institute of Oceanography; and Andrea Lopez Rivera, University…
Many thanks to those of you who have followed this blog over the past few years! It’s been a little quiet around here recently, and that’s because I…
Describe what is meant when anthropology is labeled “colonial.” Anthropology has aided colonization by dehumanizing and stereotyping Natives, by causing an erasure of Native history and identity, by…
Area 2: Ethnographic Accounts of Pacific Northwest Native peoples This subject entails the discourse and dialogue between Native peoples and societies and ethnographers on the Pacific Northwest…
10 Questions for Gerry Flahive Gerry Flahive is the creator of a fictional character, Bert Xanadu. And Bert Xanadu is man who was the Mayor of Toronto in…
As part of the book launch for The Anthropology of Sustainability, leading anthropologists consider this question – offering unconventional answers and a radical new paradigm for anthropology in…
I This is a series of posts that examines how and why American culture matters to American business. The opening post was “American Culture* and the Harvard Business…
In several relatively recent papers (2017, 2015a, 2015b) I’ve made the point that for tens of millions of Egyptians, the uprisings of 2011 weren’t something they physically experienced…
It is noted that humans have had an extreme effect on the environment everywhere they have lived. These changes became much more radical some 12,000 years ago when…
This is a series of posts that examines how and why American culture matters to American business. The opening post was “American Culture* and the Harvard Business School…
Leonard White was a steamboat captain that began his career in early Oregon at Salem. White was born in Indiana in 1827 and came to Oregon Territory in…
[This post was originally published on Medium and LinkedIn.] This is a series of posts that examines how and why American culture matters to American business. The opening…
A creek in Salem, Oregon, presently named Mill Creek (GNIS 1163145), was named such in the 1850’s. To aid the flow of the original creek, that had been…
[this post was originally published on Medium and LinkedIn] When the Harvard Business School invited me to teach a few years ago, I had one question. “Why?”…
By Neil Nunn, University of Toronto§ At every turn in my research examining the politics of mine-waste, salmon have spoken to me. They speak through a groundswell of…