Burning incense | 烧香
One month ago I happened to drop by Basement6 right on time for the opening of a solo exhibition by Shangainese artist 许聪 Xu Cong called Technological Spectacle…
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The Intrinsic Economy (why the Republicans must lose in the long term)
The shouting! The hyperbole! The balloons! Thank God the political conventions are finally over. Cleveland, Philadelphia, and television can finally get back to normal. But the ideological turbines…
Islam, devotional genres and electronic mediation in Mauritius
Here comes the ninth (9th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Lots of new articles on the election apocalypse
I’ve been a little lazy about updating this website, which I use mostly to let readers know what I’ve written recently. Lately I’ve written a lot! Here’s everything…
Wake up, Freak Out – Then Get Over It
A short animated clip that, if doesn’t embed properly below, is available here.
Teaching AAA 2016: Teaching evidence in medicine
This is the fourth post in our blog series designed to help you link your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery. The series offers relevant teaching resources…
Who will be our ethnographic hero?
There is now only one path to the White House for Donald Trump. There has to be a Brexit-type surprise in November. This is the hope of the…
Notes on the 12th digital ethnography reading (Lane 2016)
Lane, J. (2016). The Digital Street: An Ethnographic Study of Networked Street Life in Harlem. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(1), 43-58. doi: 10.1177/0002764215601711 Notes by Jolynna Sinanan Digit…
Cultivating the Nile: An Interview with Jessica Barnes
Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt By Jessica Barnes 248pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. § Colin Hoag (UC Santa Cruz and Aarhus University)…
A planet afflicted by a high fever
Essential reading on our current global predicament by the anthropologist Thomas H. Eriksen. The Pluto Press Blog – Independent, radical publishing The world is ‘overheated’. Too full and…
Honouring Baroness Young
Today the University of Sussex awards an honorary doctorate to actor and activist Baroness Lola Young. The following are the words of Professor Andrea Cornwall, Head of Sussex’s School…
American political dysfunction: a guide for Europeans
Happy to announce I’m going to be covering the US election and other social and political issues for De Correspondent, a Dutch news outlet that broke a record…
America’s growth industry is rage
I’m covering the GOP convention for the Globe and Mail and another outlet, so expect a sequel to this horror story later this month. On last night’s “Make…
Anthropology Feels Like Home
This post was submitted by Callie Randall, a high school senior and anthropology student interning with the AAA. When I was a little girl, I began to realize…
Benjamin Peters’ (2016) fascinating essay on the keyword ‘digital’
A physical copy of the brand new book Digital Keywords (2016) has just arrived through the post. On first inspection, it looks fantastic, and I’ve got the feeling…
From the Leiden Anthropology Blog: “Beyond multispecies ethnography: Engaging anthropology with violence and animal rights”
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An Interview with Dorothy J. Berry, Metadata Specialist and Project Manager for Umbra, an Initiative of the Givens Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota Libraries
While a graduate student at Indiana University, Dorothy J. Berry concurrently earned an MA degree in ethnomusicology from the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and a MLS degree…
Teaching AAA 2016: Finding evidence for slow destruction
This is the third post in our blog series designed to help you link your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery. The series offers relevant teaching resources…
The Return of the Witch
Before I was old enough to go to school- before I was stupid enough to believe ‘there’s no such thing as witches’… I knew one. She haunted every…
Vignettes of War
This post was submitted by Dr. Sumi Colligan, Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Service-Learning Co-Coordinator at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Turkey conjures up vignettes of war, n…
Our Imprisoned Friend
Anthropologist Homa Hoodfar has been imprisoned in Iran for more than a month. An Iranian-Canadian professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Homa travelled to Iran in February…