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…
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.…
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…
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…
Carolina Schneider Comandulli Extreme Citizen Science Research Group University College London The Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability has been supporting the project “Environme…
75 years after the publication of the Beveridge report, LSE Festival Beveridge 2.0 (Mon 19 Feb – Sat 24 Feb 2018) offers a week of public engagement activities exploring the ‘Five Giants’…
One of the things we are watching at Culturematic HQ is whether the artisanal theme is beginning to run out of steam. Leo Burnett London offers us this…
by Mac Spencer We begin at one of this century’s most infamous ascents to celebrity status, which I assume needs little retelling. In 2007, a leaked sex tape…
Source:https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sLNXt9DmC_U/hqdefault.jpg I was on snapchat, after the horrid update, and I went to the discovery section because it was too frustrating to figure out the actual snapch…
Each year we kick off our Anthropology Day celebration by asking individuals from across the field to share how they fell in love with anthropology. This year’s post…
This post was submitted by Robert J. Morais and Elizabeth K. Briody. In 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott disparaged the return-on-investment (ROI) of an anthropology degree: “We don’t…
This blog post is actually an announcement….I’ve started a new chapter and a new blog, and I am calling it “Consuming Culture”. Here is a sneak peak with…
“Doing history ideally is like doing anthropology of people who are gone, except that you don’t have native informants, you only have these written fragmentary sources. But the…
Source: http://wellcomeimages.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?MIROPAC=N0021523 The opium poppy, effortlessly sprouting across several continents, has captured the attention of humankind for thousands of years…
Here are my latest articles and interviews: After a year of Trump, women expect less from men — but demand more (1/22/18) — Globe and Mail Trump’s first State…
Last week I wrote a comment piece for the Corsham Institute’s Observatory for a Connected Society app asking ‘What can Anthropology tell us about data in the 21st…
This post was submitted by Alice Beck Kehoe, professor of anthropology, emerita, at Marquette University. Steve Bannon, Breitbart News. Standoff of a man, his sons and fellows against encroachment…
I’m quite happy that some recent work of mine is now out in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.[very happy to send copies to anybody with…
[This post was originally published on Medium.] Every organization operates out of an idea of itself. (We call this idea several things: our “business model,” our “value proposition,”…
Here are my articles and interviews from the past week: Trump’s racism is more than rhetoric — it forms policies and ruins lives (1/13/18) — Globe and Mail The…