Donald Trump defies the Dorian Gray effect. Why?
I found this wonderful image at the train station in my hometown in Connecticut. Scratched into an ad on the platform, someone left us a “Dorian Gray” treatment…
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Curated Ruins and Un-Memorials: The Afterlife of Detroit’s Michigan Theater
I came across Gabriel Moshenska’s Curated Ruins and the Endurance of Conflict Heritage (2015) via Twitter last week, which happily coincided with my first visit to Detroit’s former Michiga…
New book from Ken Conca – An Unfinished Foundation: the UN and Global Environmental Governance
Now available from Oxford University Press, I like the play on UN-Finished. An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance Why is the United Nations not…
Relaunch of STUAnthroBlog
After a lengthy hiatus, I am happy to report that STUAnthroBlog is set to relaunch for the 2015-16 academic year. The reasons for its temporary demise were multiple,…
Wat is antropologie eigenlijk?
De auteur tijdens een presentatie Door Mariska van Zanten Toen ik een paar jaar geleden informatie in handen kreeg over de studie Sociale en Culturele Antropologie…
Less public knowledge, more private meaning (lessons for politicians and brands)
This is a part of a map of London drawn by Fuller (aka Gareth Wood). Wood says that he created a map to show his relationship with the city over…
Cultural Leaders and Laggards, the problem with beer ads
I love this ad. How quickly bashful behavior gives way to full-on performance. And how this disappears (when the woman enters the store). And then reappears (when it occurs to our…
Brian Holmes on Capital Circulation in the Anthropocene
Re-blogged from: Brian Holmes on Capital Circulation in the Anthropocene
Third session of digital ethnography reading group
by Will Balmford Research assistant Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) School of Media and Communication RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Hello all, Welcome to round three of DERG! We’ve…
CFA: Theorising Media and Conflict workshop, Vienna, 23-24 Oct 2015
A Media Anthropology Network event European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Vienna, Austria 23-24 October 2015 ** Financial …
Theorizing Media And Conflict
The Media Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) has issued a call for proposals for the a workshop on conflict and media. The goal is…
AAA Webinar Wednesday Returns with Lenore Manderson September 2nd at 2 PM Eastern
Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century with Lenore Manderson Lenore will be our first speaker in the AAA Webinar Series this fall! The AAA’s Webinar Wednesday is back…
A Silent Crisis: Race, Disability, and Health Disparities in the U.S.
I recently gave a talk on race, disability, and health disparities at the CEDD 2015 Cross-Systems Summit in Austin. In an effort to ensure that my work is…
New book – After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene by Jedediah Purdy
Interesting new title from Harvard University Press can be found here: After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world…
Disability and Health Disparities: Some Quick Facts
lizlewisanthro: Refreshing my memory in preparation for Friday’s talk on race, disability, and health. Originally posted on Disability Fieldnotes: The CDC defines health disparities as: A type o…
Dying For The Revolution: Special Journal Issue
“Death lies at the beginning of the Arab uprisings and continues to haunt them.” So writes Amira Mittermeier in the introduction to a special collection of articles in…
A day in the life of St. Louis’s most dangerous neighborhood
Last week my colleague Umar Lee and I spent some time in College Hill, known as one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in St. Louis, and talked to…
Organic and the Inorganic in Ayahuasca Visions (conference video)
Talk delivered at EGA (Entheogenesis Australis) 2014, RMIT, Melbourne. Abstract: Images saturate our consciousness today. With the advent of photography, television, the personal computer and the Inte…
Summer issue of the journal Daedalus is focused on water
Table of contents with abstracts, etc. is here. Introduction Anna M. Michalak, Christopher B. Field Daedalus Summer 2015, Vol. 144, No. 3: 5–6. Abstract | PDF (63 KB)…
Be still my beating NYC HeART
I lived in New York City for a few short-but-long-enough years in the “early 2000s”. My renovated-but-still-affordable apartment was on (as we told my girlfriend’s conservative subu…
Getting to Know Gratiot
Gratiot Avenue is one of Detroit’s 5 original main avenues (along with Woodward, Michigan, Jefferson, and Grand River) that branch out from downtown like the spokes of a…
CFP: Media, culture and change across the Pacific
by Raul Castro, via the EASA Media Anthropology Network mailing list Call for Papers Media, culture and change across the Pacific: perspectives from Asia, Oceania and the Americas…