Communicating About Climate Change: We Have So Far To Go
This post by Susie Crate is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. Wow! COP 23, not unlike…
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A Touch of the Sepulchral at COP 23
This post by Naveeda Khan is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. Shirley Fiske provides a visceral…
The 1851 Treaty Commission: the Ya-su-chah at Port Orford
This second treaty at Port Orford was with a tribe south of the Rogue River, likely the Chetleshin tribe. This is another athapaskan speaking tribe that already had…
The 1851 Treaty Commission: Coquille, Euchre, and Tototan at Port Orford
The Coquille are a Miluk speaking tribe and the other tribes, Euchre Creek and To-to-tan, are athapaskan speaking tribes that already had several problems with explorers and…
Ticks, Pesticides, and Biome-Subjectivity
By Abigail Dumes (University of Michigan) Fifty-five years ago, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a groundbreaking text that brought into view the dangers of pesticides and their overuse.…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy Part XIX
Here are some of my articles, speeches and interviews from the past three weeks, otherwise known as a millennium in Trump Time… How Data Can Save Us From…
The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals: The right hand knows what the left hand is doing.
This post by Julie Raymond is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. In 2015, the…
AAA at Global Climate Change Conference – “We’re Still In”
This post, the first in a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, was authored by Shirley Fiske. …
“Designing Strategies for AAA Member Engagement” a 2017 Annual Meeting Workshop Preview
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AmAnth17. This post was submitted by Daniel Ginsberg, AAA’s manager…
Papers and Panels of Interest at the 2017 American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting
We have big news. This year is the 73rd Annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology. For the first time, Anthropoliteia is offering up a list of…
Our tribute to Kim Wall
Kim Wall was a Swedish journalist who was killed this summer while reporting. Although she was not an anthropologist by education, her work explored subcultures and what she…
The Socio-Cultural Problem with Sandals
Why doesn’t the PM speak and listen to sociologists as much as he does economists? The Problem with Sandals What do Donald Trump, Theresa May, and Keith Rowley all…
The Socio-Cultural Problem with Sandals
Why doesn’t the PM speak and listen to sociologists as much as he does economists? The Problem with Sandals What do Donald Trump, Theresa May, and Keith Rowley all…
Why you should move from Word to Pages
[This post originally appeared on Medium.] ○ Word is expensive, Pages is free. ○ Pages used to be bad at footnotes (while Word was always superb). Now it’s…
“That Almost Finished Journal Article” a 2017 Annual Meeting Workshop Preview
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AmAnth17. This post was submitted by Jaida Samudra, the organizer…
Yes, it is surely a Oklahoma Cherokee basket; Or my captions, as written
Fellow basketry enthusiasts may have seen the traveling exhibition Rooted, Revived, and Reinvented: Basketry in America. Happily for our musuem the exhibition includes a Sea Island basket from…
Mitocondrias
«Cualquier destino, por largo y complicado que sea, consta en realidad de un solo momento: el momento en que el hombre sabe para siempre, quién es». Jorge Luis…
“The View From Flyover Country” will be published in paperback this spring!
I’ve got some big news — my best-selling 2015 essay collection “The View From Flyover Country” will be released in an updated paperback version this spring! There has…
Launch of Anthropocene Primer: open access platform
OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF DIGITAL OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATION AN ANTHROPOCENE PRIMER, Version 1.0 October 23, 2017 The IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute is proud to announce the official…
Google’s early warning of the rise of Trump
[This post first appeared on Medium, October 23, 2017] All social observers should (still) be asking themselves, “How did we miss it? How did we miss the rise…
The AAA Publishing Portfolio Principle: The Rights of the Individual
At is core, AAA’s publishing program is governed by four values: quality, breadth, accessibility, and sustainability. These core values have enabled a rich and enduring portfolio of more…
Me Too Anthropology
TW: Rape, abuse, misogyny; CW: cis-gendered language by Elizabeth Beckmann Just over a week ago the #MeToo campaign, originally pioneered by black activist Tarana Burke over ten years ago,…