Postill, J. and L.C. Epafras forthcoming 2017. Tweeting religion in Indonesia: when political arenas go viral. American Ethnologist (virtual issue) The popularity of social media in Indonesia, combi…
By Anna Baral Take a woman anthropologist, an online social network and a President who has stayed in power thirty years. Take a country whose governance has been…
Postill, J. 2017. The diachronic ethnography of media: from social changing to actual social changes. Moment, Journal of Cultural Studies 4(1): 19-43. PDF Abstract In this article I…
As a researcher who was raised in Brazil, my uncertainty and dilemmas may have a different punch compared to other cases. The context of uncertainty in Brazil includes…
Nada hay tan increíble que la oratoria no pueda volver posible Cicerón Un elemento clásico en las narraciones fantásticas es el uso de palabras mágicas, conjuros con el…
Taking it day by day, learning to live like an animal in the jungle where we play… My latest articles and interviews: Trump is reportedly under investigation. Does…
In September 2103, Alice Sala and Gregoire Mayor, from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland and on behalf of the multimedia French-language journal ethnographiques.org, came to South Africa to…
In September 2103, Alice Sala and Gregoire Mayor, from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland and on behalf of the multimedia French-language journal ethnographiques.org came to South Africa to…
By Kate Symons, University of Edinburgh. [C]onservation is not a priority….. they [Frelimo] want economic growth at any point. So if they find …… coal and gas and…
This post is part of a feature on the 2017 UK elections, moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling (University of Bern). As an Irishman living in England, I…
Do you have stories to tell? SAPIENS is searching for new, talented writers from all fields of anthropology to share their experiences and insights with our worldwide readership.…
The concept of “revolution” used by Western media to report on the so-called “Arab Spring” (itself a term coined by the Western media) is rooted in understandings of…
I have just found this amazing resource/blog – highly recommend checking it out if you are interested in Oceania. Beauty of Oceania LINK TO PACIFIC READING DROPBOX These…
Today I spoke at the March for Truth at St Louis. Thank you to everyone who came out to the Arch and heard me speak and a special…
av Christer Lindberg Det förmodligen mest udda inslaget på årets SANT-konferens i Stockholm var nog min presentation av fotoboken New York’s Raven (Transco-Script, Malmö 2017) under sektionen nya…
Here are my articles and interviews from the past few days. I will be speaking at the March for Truth in St. Louis this Saturday morning. Follow March…
(photo credit 3. Embrace your weird. It’s what changes the world for the better. Prince was certainly not a human you would describe as “ordinary” or “mainstream” or…
How the hell has it only been two weeks since Comey was fired? Anyway. In the meantime, I went to Estonia to speak to foreign dignitaries, came back,…
Rafael Morais Chiaravalloti University College London I started my career as a conservationist in the Pantanal, Brazil. I remember the first thing I heard was that the local…
Food in EcoME is mostly vegan and vegetarian in order to be able to host people from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Many participants love it, others have…
-Picture courtesy New York Times Catherine Clarke University College London (UCL) Editor’s Note – Although not explicitly discussing narratives of sustainability, this essay examines the political su…
[This essay first appeared in Medium. It has been lightly edited for presentation here.] In the world of documentary filmmaking, it feels like there’s the era “Before Ken…
CAREMOTION –noun- finding balance between the care of others and self, and the emotions during video making. Etymology-(coined Canterbury 2017) a synthesis of care, motion, emotion, motion picture…