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Attenzione, un governo a 5 Stelle non è l’alternativa alla sinistra
Pubblicato sul settimanale Left in edicola dal 5 Dicembre. Fa un certo effetto ascoltare Paolo Flores D’Arcais in un lungo intervento sui tre valori della Rivoluzione francese –…
A Sixteen Year Old finds Encouragement and Inspiration at AAA 2015
Chandler Zausner, one of AAA’s youngest members, submitted the following post about his experience at the AAA Annual Meeting and how he caught the anthropology bug. My name…
The Grinder and the perils of celebrity culture
The Grinder is a show from FOX about a TV actor (Rob Lowe as “Dean”) who leaves his hit series, a courtroom drama, to spend some time in…
The Shock of the Anthropocene: the Earth, history, and us
This is an interesting looking book, from Verso. “Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing simply an environmental…
-Ethnographie ist Literatur – Gespräch über die Edition Tethys und die Kraft von Geschichten in der Wissenschaft
http://cba.fro.at/wp-content/uploads/weltempfnger/interviewolafmixdown.mp3 Die Edition Tethys ist ein neu gegründeter Verlag, der sich Begegnungen, Erkundungen und Wi…
An article! An article!
If there’s one thing that helps to ground you when you’ve felt voiceless or powerless in the past, it’s when you see the writing equivalent of your name…
Paying it Forward at AAA 2015
AAA member Ralph Bolton shared the following story on his Facebook page: “One evening in Denver at the American Anthropological Association meeting a few days ago, I went out…
Isabelle Stengers’ new book available open access
Isabelle Stengers’ new book, In Catastrophic Times, is available for free as a .pdf download at this site. Here is a description of the book (which you can…
Celebrating anthropology
This blogpost is an open message to my colleagues and friends who are celebrating today the 25th anniversary of the first anthropology department in Hungary. Dear all, I…
My Tribe Is an Unsophisticated People
This is a photograph of Sara Little Turnbull (1917–2015). Sara was an designer and anthropologist. In 1988 she founded, and for 18 years she ran, the Process of…
Post Gezi Sensibilities and the Recent Turkish Elections
In Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks, Jenny White (2014:198) argues, “In the Gezi clashes, a new generation of citizens, whose expectations have been shaped by twenty-first-century global…
America’s water cure towns
This is a very interesting piece from citylab, worth checking into if you find previous ways of thinking about human-water (and city!) relationships intriguing.
Immortality: who needs it?
Each day, unbelievable amounts of human energy are channeled into prolonging life. We pour millions of dollars and unending hours into seeking medial advents that may fend off…
Blame it on Ebola
Since the 7th of November Sierra Leone is officially Ebola-free. Even if the outbreak lasted far too long and it was far too painful, there is reason now…
“It’s All in the Name: Undiagnosis in a Diagnostic Age”
Here is the link to the paper I will present at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Lewis_2015_AAA Paper Please do not use, cite, or…
Do Brands Have The Power To Change The World?
Here is the one true thing I know about humans having studied them in action and been one myself for many years: we are essentially “good”. Whether…
Verkiezingsuitslag Myanmar in perspectief
Door Maaike Matelski. Precies vijf jaar na het einde van haar huisarrest is bekendgemaakt dat de partij van oppositieleidster Aung San Suu Kyi een absolute meerderheid heeft behaald…
DisNGOization in practice
I have been here for three weeks that have run so fast that it seems I landed yesterday. It is time to focus on the main reason of…
Gemeente Zuidplas heet u welkom
Het zoeken naar ontspanning en het spelen van spelletjes is belangrijk voor iedereen. Door Nadine Goeree. Mijn ons-kent-ons dorpje, waar ik graag ben en niet uit weg zou…
After the Paris attacks; a letter to my daughter.
After the Paris attacks. A letter to my daughter, Lou Hart. Sophie and Constance are shaken, S more moved by all the calls from kin and friends, poring…
Thoughts on Death Row
I was watching the movie Capote last night and it got me thinking about death row and the psychological health of the inmates. Capote follows Truman Capote’s process…
geräuschkulisse*Situation Room
Mo, 30.11.15 tipi / westwerk, pferdehaus, 1.OG, Leipzig 21.00 Uhr SITUATION ROOM vom Rimini Protokoll Produktion: WDR 2014 54′ “Der “Situation Room” im Weißen Haus ist rund um…
Water is the theme for 2016 “Under Western Skies” Conference
These conferences in Calgary, Alberta have been very good and the next one, taking place September 2016, is focused on water. The full conference website is here. And…