The following is an interview of Byung-Ho Chung Professor at Hanyang University and President of the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology, conducted by AAA Executive Director Ed Liebow. EL: I…
‘Voices from the mine’ is a new 33-minute documentary film by University of Bath researcher, Dr Roy Maconachie. It focuses on resource governance in Sierra Leone’s artisanal diamond mining sector,…
Co-written with Hugo Ferreira and published electronically by Tvergastein at https://tvergasteinjournal.weebly.com/ferreira-and-eriksen.html# The stories from Hurdal are Hugo’s, as he has carrie…
This post was submitted by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, professor of medical anthropology at UC Berkeley where she directs the doctoral program in Critical Studies in Medicine, Science and the…
Yesterday I was asked to review a paper on the Egyptian uprisings for an academic journal. After I read the manuscript, I went through the references, as I…
Are Tribes Ready for Termination, Again? In the past few weeks a number of federal administration officials have made statements which suggest that a concerted effort is underway…
This post was submitted by Jonathan M. Metzl, professor of sociology and psychiatry, and director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University. It’s enough to…
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…