ERDOĞAN HAR GÜLEN UNDER HUDEN!
I desember 2013 ble det klart for alle at Erdoğan var i åpen konflikt med predikanten Fetullah Gülen. Tidligere hadde disse to og deres organisasjoner AK partiet og…
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GÜLEN SIN MYSTISKE MAKT
I kjølvannet av kuppforsøket har det i den norske offentligheten vært mest oppmerksomhet om problematiske sider ved de tyrkiske myndighetenes respons, og hvordan kuppet kanskje var rigget av…
HVEM STOD BAK KUPPFORSØKET I TYRKIA?
Tidenes største folkemøte i Tyrkia ble arrangert sist søndag (7. august 2016). 5 millioner mennesker var til stede på den statsorganiserte massemønstringer i Istanbul for å markere demokrati…
Teaching AAA 2016: Narratives, Evidence, and Uncertainty
This is the fifth 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…
On Clinton Derangement Syndrome
In which I try to explain to a European audience this unique pathology affecting Americans: The answer is often axiomatic. People hate Hillary Clinton because people hate Hillary…
Assassination
Another horrifying day in the US election. My latest on Trump’s assassination threats for Globe and Mail: “By the way, and if she gets the pick – if…
AAA Intern Update: National Museum of African Art
This post was submitted by one of AAA’s 2016 summer interns, Chrislyn Laurore, an anthropology student at Mount Holyoke College. By now, many of us who have taken…
If Trump loses, who follows?
My latest for Quartz is a sequel of sorts to my Foreign Policy piece (see below) on the repercussions of a Trump loss, and how his campaign has…
An Update From Our Interns: NHHC Underwater Archaeology Branch
This post comes from one of AAA’s 2016 summer interns, Kory Cooper, an anthropology student at Missouri State University. I can’t imagine a better place to work than…
Ethics in the Anthropocene: new paper in The Anthropocene Review
Together with Peter Brown and Chris Orr (both at McGill), I’ve co-authored a new article now available at The Anthropocene Review in advance of print. If you’d like…
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…
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…