Urban Space, Virtual Space, and the Media In Egypt
What is “the geography of urban uprising during the so-called Arab Spring” and, particularly, what is the relationship between its physical and virtual locations? That’s the question…
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“We cannot give up hope” – A conversation with Gish Amit on his book #Palestine
Gish Amit is a historian who has been involved in non formal education for twenty years. He taught cinema and literature at the Arab Democratic School in Jaffa,…
My new book is coming soon….
Before January 2016, my new book, “I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College, will be published by Cornell University Press. You can sign up on…
What Halloween Masks
A very thoughtful consideration of Halloween from the eyes of little children. Perhaps because I have spent the past two days at grief workshops, this article made me…
Unequal opportunity and limited futures
My latest for the Brooklyn Quarterly is on opportunity hoarding, inherited wealth, and what it means for the future of our kids: The gulf separating the current generation…
Grijs gebied: identiteitsvorming onder Nederlandse meisjes met een islamitische vader
Culturele verdeeldheid in één persoon door Christel de Bruijn Je bent 16 jaar en al je vriendinnetjes willen op zaterdagavond de stad in om te dansen en te…
New Book! Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water
jeremy schmidt: An interesting new title perhaps worth checking into. Originally posted on Discard Studies: Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race’s new book, Plastic Water: The Social and…
Religion and economy
(Delivered on October 22nd in the Economics Faculty, Humboldt University, Berlin as the Hermann Otto Hirschfeld lecture for 2015. With profound thanks to Prof. Rolf Schieder for his…
The Human Condition in the Anthropocene: Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Tanner Lectures
Two lectures, plus a round table:
“Revolutionary Egypt” Book Launch
If you are going to be in London next month–Nov. 17, to be precise–you might want to drop in on a panel at the London Middle East Institute…
counting back
48 hours before the plane takes off
DERC seminar: Social media and West Papua by Usman Hamid
Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne Wed 21 October 2015, 3-4:30pm City campus, Building 13, Room 7, Level 4 Map: http://bit.ly/1PAT2vP Website: http://www.digital-eth…
Bayira, an ancient Ethiopian skeletal, provides the earliest African genome
John Arthur, Kathryn Arthur and Matthew Curtis in Ethiopia In 2012, an archaeological team funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Kathryn and John Arthur (both…
The rise of suburban homelessness
For the Guardian, I profiled a woman who went from living in a suburban house and making $60,000 per year to living in a homeless shelter in downtown…
114th AAA Annual Meeting Volunteers
Open Call for Volunteers Never been to an Annual Meeting? Nervous about meeting people? Volunteering is a great way to network and get a better understanding of the…
Running Dry: Water, People, and the Planet in Marathwada, India
This is a very interesting series on water problems in Marathwada, India. Well worth the read, and certainly important for understands the broader interconnections and logics affecting people…
Who is the next Frank Sinatra?
I spent the last couple of days in Palm Springs. (I was giving a talk to NBC.) I gave myself a day to wander around. Palm Springs does…
Polanyi: prophete de la fin de l’economie liberale (2008)
http://interventionseconomiques.revues.org/304 Résumés Français English Interest in the work of Karl Polanyi has increased with the coming of neoliberal globalization and it may still increase g…
Special issue on Contesting Consecrated Scientific Narratives in the Anthropocene
Some really interesting articles in the latest issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. Apologies for the formatting, and thanks to Christiana Peppard…
Remove Killers from Memory and the Human Community
Last week Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin asked us not to name the man responsible for the killings at the community college in Oregon. And the debate begins.…
As Usual, The Devil’s in the Details; or, Why Ethnography Matters for Everything
A new study reports that pre-kindergarten programs in Tennessee fail to achieve any long-term gains. Republican lawmakers are already seizing on the news as evidence that pre-K programs…
Al-Ameriya bedreigt? Oorlog en de vernietiging van cultureel erfgoed in Jemen.
Door Marina de Regt. Zondagochtend werd de film Qudad: Reinventing a Tradition vertoond op het Ambacht in Beeld festival in Amsterdam. De film gaat over de restauratie van…