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The soft bigotry of Trumpian expectations
More on the presidential debate for Quartz: That is the difference between skepticism and nihilism. The latter is what some elite journalists did by declaring Trump the winner…
Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe: A World on the Move Event
Submitted by Leslie Walker, project manager, AAA public education initiatives. On August 25, 2016, the AAA hosted our second book reading in conjunction with our public education initiative, World…
Hillary Clinton destroyed Trump in the debate
My take on last night’s presidential debate for Globe and Mail: Last night, Hillary Clinton, the daughter of a drape maker, revealed the man behind the curtain. Combining…
Who Cares About Craft as Traditional Knowledge?
This fall has been a particularly busy season for research-based programs at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. An an outgrowth of our Indiana Folk Arts: 200 Years…
The terrible new gun law of Missouri/Missourah
For Quartz, I wrote about Missouri’s terrible new permitless carry law and our state’s cultural divide: Gun culture, in Missouri, is indeed ubiquitous: that Kander, running as a Democrat…
Bruggen slaan tussen statushouders en woningcorporatie Rochdale
Bruggen slaan Door Marit Timmerman. ‘Building bridges’. Met deze term heeft Freek Colombijn mij drie jaar geleden tijdens een open dag overtuigd om antropologie te gaan studeren. Nu,…
Landscapes
The extraction of natural resources produces particular resource environments, or landscapes of resource extraction. These landscapes are dynamic systems that people try to influence, contest, operate…
iPhone combat: Bloggers: 1, Jean-Louis Gassee: 0
I’m a big fan of Jean-Louis Gassée. So I was pleased to see a new post from him today It’s called iPhone Nonsensus: Apple’s Debt To Bloggers. Gassee goes after…
Birtherism
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about Trump’s long-running birther crusade against President Obama: What Americans did not know is that this was arguably the moment Mr. Trump’s…
Concrete and Livability in Occupied Palestine
By Kali Rubaii, University of California, Santa Cruz § Portland Cement extracts the enduring time of rocks and mobilizes it to build quickly. Through heat, rock[1] is bound with…
From the Field: Istanbul
July 2016: Sussex anthropologist Magnus Marsden’s field research for his ERC-funded project, ‘Trust, Global Traders and Commodities in a Chinese International Trade City’ brought him to Istanbul, Turk…
Vertretung
Vorher hatte ich eine andere Stelle an der Universität, doch nun war ich Vertretungsprofessor. So stand es in dem Brief des Kanzlers. Für meine frühere Stelle hatte ich…
How to save luxury brands (and American capitalism)
Elizabeth Segran has a nice essay in Fast Company: The Decline Of Premium American Fashion Brands. What Happened, Ralph And Tommy? As a teen, Segran admired ads by Ralph…
Twitter Images of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: New Journal Article
Images have a semiotic density quite different from that of words, So if “a picture is worth a thousand words” how many tweets is it worth? And is…
Entrepreneurial Selves
by Rebecca Prentice **Reprinted from Journal of Latin American Studies.** The heroic figure of the entrepreneur is everywhere these days. She’s the small-scale ‘micro-entrepreneur’ at the centre of mi…
Did Trump buy the Fourth Estate?
I have been writing and tweeting about Trump’s relationship with the US media for over a year. Now I have written a summary of the fiasco, appropriately published in…
Cultural Anthropology: The Most Important Class that Any Undergraduate Will Take
This post was authored by Leslie Walker, project manager, AAA public education initiatives. A cultural anthropology course is the most important class any undergraduate student can take. This…
Spielberg: 1, Harvard: 0
Hollywood used to know what Americans wanted. Then came the new diversity of moving-going taste and preference. Hollywood was in trouble. In the words of Tom Hanks: “Nobody…
On the responsibilities of panelists
So you can tell what’s coming here. The short version is: should panelists provide for a good show (topical, interesting, cutting edge, the presentation of new research, ideas,…
No, Uzbekistan is probably not going to be invaded by terrorists
For twenty-five years, an invasion of Uzbekistan by Islamic terrorists has been predicted, and for twenty-five years, it has not happened. Instead, that fear has been used as…
A Trump rally without Trump
What is a Trump rally like without Donald Trump present? To find out, I drove to a Harley Davidson lot in Festus, Missouri, where the local branch of…
A Dream Team for M-PAAC
It is my great pleasure to announce the presidential appointment of a dream leadership team for the newly created Members’ Programmatic, Advisory and Advocacy Committee (M-PAAC). Tricia Redeker…
Gold fever in Sakolabada, Mali
Sakolabada is a new town which completely depends on gold mining. Officially, it doesn´t exist, it doesn´t show on any official administrative map. However, in this non-existent town,…