Guerilla Graffiti: Sabotaging Homeland
Greetings from Bhubaneshwar! I’m on leave in India working on projects far removed from Egypt and the Middle East, but I’m also reviewing materials and cleaning up things…
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Making the Most of Life
We often talk about what it means to “truly live” or even more simply what it means to be considered “living.” This idea was one of the main…
Transparent marketing and design
[This post first published on Medium March 16, 2018] I was looking at the app store this morning and noticed in the upper left hand corner The Art…
The Death Penalty
Over spring break, a lot of articles surfaced concerning the trial of Nikolas Cruz, the mass shooter of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. One particular…
Trickster’s Path
If one tries to consider Tawfiq ‘Ukasha as a counterreactionary populist demagogue, (as do the few journalists and political scientists who mention him at all), the bizarre rises…
Morsi Must Die
There seems to be one thing that Egyptian dictator as-Sisi and ISIL agree on: Mohammed Morsi must die. ISIS was the first to voice this position, in a…
So…Is There A Global Occusphere?
The Occusphere. That’s the term given by Tod Moore of the University of Newcastle in Australia to the “totality of Occupy-inspired events” in his article “The transformation …
New Paper! Financialization and the water-energy-food- climate nexus
I’m delighted to announce that my latest paper, co-authored with Nate Matthews, is now out in Geoforum. It is free via this link until April 28, or copy…
Coco: How Pixar uses Mexican culture to talk to kids about death
This past Friday night, my Disney-obsessed best friend dragged me to watch Coco with her at Harland Cinema. Okay, okay, you got me, she didn’t have to drag…
LCF Field School
This week, Dr. Lydia Light and I took graduate and undergraduate students to the Lemur Conservation Foundation in Myakka City, FL to learn how to do identify primates,…
Future Remains: a cabinet of curiosities for the Anthropocene (new book!)
Another great looking new book, from University of Chicago Press, with a slate of well regarded contributors. Future Remains: a cabinet of curiosities for the Anthropocene Edited by:…
Making the Enemy…Or Not
At the end of 2013, the Muslim Brotherhood had gone from being an organization whose members held the Presidency and the largest number of seats in Parliament to…
New book on Water Justice
This looks like quite a nice collection from Cambridge University Press. Water Justice Edited by Rutgerd Boelens, Tom Perreault, and Jeroen Vos Book description Water justice is becoming…
Speaking Of Jinn…
I recently participated in a podcast about jinn, material culture and modernity and globalization on the Archaeological Fantasies podcast. Here’s their episode notes: Magical Jinn and where …
Sorge vor fliegenden Jurten
Es schneit wieder und ich huste wegen der Abgase. Ein Kollege meint, die Feinstaubbelastung sei heute sehr gering. Im Sommer würde es richtig pelzig auf der Zunge. Wir…
“The Mafia White House”: My no-holds-barred interview on The Rick Smith Show
On February 28, I did an extremely angry, no-holds-barred interview with The Rick Smith Show about the Trump administration and the investigation into Russian interference. You can listen…
Reversed rushes? Expulsion as a dominant feature of gold miners’ mobility in Guinea and Mali
By Matthieu Bolay, Université de Neuchâtel When I was carrying out fieldwork in Guinea and Mali between 2010 and 2014, some ministry officials, with whom I discussed the topics…
Petty Nationalism and the Right’s War on Language
This post was submitted by Phillip M. Carter, an associate professor of linguistics at Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute The French Revolutionaries, compelled as they were by…
Be Right Back
Black mirror is a popular Netflix original anthological series that examines the dark aspects of modern society with countless casts and stories, from political satires to future dystopias.…
Gruesome TV: dumb culture returns?
The thing that strikes you about The Frankenstein Chronicles is how gruesome it is. This was true too of The Alienist. In both cases, the series begins with…
The Three Faces
Since taking a course on The Philosophy of Religion with Dr. Wendy Farley, I have developed an interest in studying death and suffering. Naturally, I began to pay…
CAOS SUPPORTS ACTIVITIES IN BRAZILIAN INDIGENOUS LANDS
Carolina Schneider Comandulli Extreme Citizen Science Research Group University College London The Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability has been supporting the project “Environme…