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…
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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…
Is music dead? (more evidence)
Here is Rich Cohen on Charlie Rose last night discussing his new book The Sun and the Moon and The Rolling Stones (with Jeff Glor sitting in for Mr. Rose.)…
WAWV Profiles Two Indiana Craftspeople; Draws Content and Inspiration from Indiana Folk Arts Catalogue
A local ABC affiliate profiled two Indiana craftspeople in a recent local news segment. These makers–blacksmith John Bennett and bowl hewer Keith Ruble–are featured in the exhibition and…
Police brutality, caught on tape
My latest for the Globe and Mail is on the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by police: In 1991, when video was released of Rodney King…
“Orlando”
Shaka McGlotten is Associate Professor of media, society and the arts at Purchase College-SUNY and Co-Chair of the Association for Queer Anthropology. Before I left for my summer…
What robots in space teach us about teamwork: A deep dive into NASA
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: The final contributor in the Co-designing with machines edition is Janet Vertesi, (@cyberlyra), assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, ur…
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…
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!…