Anthropology Changed the Way I See the World
This post was submitted by Veronica Sirotic, a high school senior and anthropology student interning with the AAA. For the longest time, I thought anthropology was a chic…
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Tinderbox: Building an ingenuity machine
Several weeks ago, Mark Bernstein announced the latest Tinderbox, the “tool for notes.” I almost always sign up for these updates. I almost always give the new edition…
Sandra Postel: Repairing the Water Cycle
Originally a podcast…
Review of Bourdieu’s (2014) On the State
Review of Bourdieu, P. (2014). On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992. P. Champagne, R. Lenoir, F. Poupeau, & M. C. Rivière (Eds.). London: Polity.…
Graham Harman: Morton’s Hyperobjects & the Anthropocene
synthetic zero “Harman will consider the similarities and differences of the terms ‘hyperobjects’, coined by Timothy Morton, and ‘anthropocene objects’. The concept of Hyperobjects refers to entiti…
Scared of my own voice
I publish under a pseudonym, that of the ‘The Anxious Anthropologist’. This suits me as it’s like donning a mask and going to a party. You get to…
golden age of barbarians w/ james c sott
synthetic zero “How did so many of us, Homo sapiens, quite late in our species history, come to live in sedentary heaps of people, grain, and domesticated animals…
The Anthropologist’s Brexit
Anthropologists have responded to the result of the UK’s referendum to leave the European Union with a mixture of condemnation, despair, and reflection on the conditions that created ‘Brexit’…
Welcome to the Anthropocene – Video of debate with Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler
Welcome to the Anthropocene – Video of debate with Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler (via Philippe Theophanidis) We no longer live in the Holocene. Welcome to the Anthropocene!…
Remaking the Museum for the 21st century
Several months ago, Robert Fogarty asked if I wanted to contribute something to a special issue of The Antioch Review called “The Future of Museums.” I did! It’s been…
On the UK Referendum
by Jane K. Cowan For me, the UK referendum story began a year ago with another referendum: that of Greece. Elected in January 2015 on a promise to end…
The myth of millennials
My latest for Quartz is on the danger of generalizing generations: Three years ago, TIME magazine published a cover story called “The Me Me Me Generation—Millennials are lazy,…
Flagged: Children on July 4th
Author Cindy Dell Clark, associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, did fieldwork on Memorial Day and July 4th during 2005-2012. She has also studied American families at…
Why Anthropologists Don’t Whisper Well
CEOs should hire anthropologists. After all, these CEOS speak to a complex set of stakeholders. How useful to have someone, an expert, whispering in their ear. But it turns out…
Open Access Book: Indiana Folk Arts
This year is a big year for the Mathers Museum of World Cultures in a number of respects. Two of these weave together. Its the state bicentennial for…
Trump and Brexit
From my latest for the Globe and Mail: The 2000 race led to the phrase “red states and blue states”. Republican red states are usually in the middle,…
De dag van Brexit: Stof dat opwaait, stof dat neerdwarrelt en stof tot denken
Voorblad van The Sun op 24 juni Door Rhoda Woets Op de dag die Nigel Farage uitriep tot dag van de onafhankelijkheid van een Brussels monster, word ik…
Conversations
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, Aarhus University § Photo by author. i. I carry home the shock of green wheat it nods as I walk. Yesterday we saw the…
Waking up to Brexit
by Paul Boyce On the morning of 24th June I had what I have since learnt to be a common experience. I lay in bed in conscious abeyance;…
The True Cost
by Rebecca Prentice **Originally published in Anthropology of Work Review (2016).** The global fashion industry is worth more than two trillion dollars, creating jobs, economic growth, tax earnings, a…
Wedding Crashers
After marriage equality became the law of the land, lawmakers across the United States doubled down on discrimination. Author Ryan Thoreson is a scholar in residence at the…
Teaching AAA 2016: Experts on Trial
This is the second 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…
Should we all radicalize? Anthropology in times of capitalist crises
A response to the inaugural lecture of Dimitris Dalakoglou, Chair in Social Anthropology at VU University Amsterdam. Refugee crisis in Europe, via creative commons By Herbert Ploegman As…
The Queer Political is Geopolitical
This month, major cities throughout the U.S. will hold annual gay pride events: parades followed by parties throughout the night and weekend. These kinds of celebrations – for…