Design: cycles and heroes
Bill O’Connor was kind enough to send me an early comment on my recent blog post on Design and the corporation. He has given me permission to reproduce…
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Open Access and the academic gift economy
No, I’m not arguing that everything should be free. Just academic articles. And I mean really free, in most senses of the word. Last week, the University of…
Amazonian ayahuasca tourism and millenarian imperialism: The story of the Ethnobotanical Stewardship Council
[Abstract] This essay explores proposals that have been made for the political economy of Amazonian ayahuasca shamanism by the Western-based NGO Ethnobotanical Stewardship Council (ESC). The discourse…
Freiheit. Angst.
Freiheit. Angst. Der Aufstand in Syrien werde islamistischer, gewaltbereiter, männlicher, heißt es. Doch nach wie vor gibt es den gewaltfreien Widerstand und viele Syrerinnen sind darin aktiv: Sie…
The lady, the fox and the ram
At the Zumbagua parish fiesta, July 5, 2014, the members of the tourist trade association of Quilotoa accompanied a lady, a fox, a ram and a four man…
Medical anthropology, relatedness, and analytical cannibalism
Despite Hiedegger’s revolutionary claim that it is not possible to escape existence and find a view of the world from nowhere,we continue to divide anthropology into neat subfields— defined typi…
Conference report: Pacific History Association
by Maile Arvin Note: Brief conference reports such as this one will be a regular category on this blog, as we seek to share information about conferences relevant…
Feliz Navidad from San Miguel de Allende!
Last night, Christmas Eve San Miguel de Allende reverberated with bells from every direction. The city’s three-hundred or so churches each seemed to have their own, slightly different schedule…
Coming soon….”Meta-Education: The Movie”
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BE MORE ‘BIG-MAN’ THAN ‘CHIEF’ TESCO: THE EROSION OF BRAND PURPOSE & VALUE IN SEARCH OF DOMINATION
The Iron Man films are good portraits of a hunger for domination. The villain is depicted as a extremely wealthy individual where he and his organisation seek…
Beginnings
This site is a space for Nolu ʻEhu and Hinemoana of Turtle Island, two different groups of Pacific Islander poets, activists, scholars and storytellers, to speak to each…
Das Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver – im Gespräch mit Maria Venne
MOA, im Sommer 2014, von Maria Das Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver (MOA) ist eine einzigartige Institution an der Westküste Kanadas, auf dem traditionellen Land der Musqeam People. Hier…
乌镇时代 | Wuzhen Times
The first World Internet Conference was held November 19-21, in the scenic water village of Wuzhen (proudly endorsed by 7,000 years of history). English-language tech bloggers and news…
Where do we go from here?: The Future of Upward Anthropology in the Wake of AAA2014 and the Failure of Justice
First, I want to thank everyone who attended our meeting at Sankofa last Thursday, and for making the AAA conference so amazing. It was a challenging experience for…
Vom Wissen der Objekte. Ethnologische Konstellationen – Ausstellung im Grassimuseum für Völkerkunde
Anfang November feierte das Leipziger Institut für Ethnologie sein 100 Jähriges Bestehen. Zu dem Anlass gab es nicht nur ein Symposium, Vorträge und eine tolle Ethnoparty sondern auch…
AAA 2014 Tonight!
Today is the day! If you’re attending AAA 2014, we will be having a meeting at Sankofa tonight from 6-7pm. After the meeting we will head in the…
Informality: problem or solution?
Presentation at the World Bank PSD Forum 2006, Washington DC, April 4-6 Bureaucratic form and informality Most people attending this Forum live substantially inside what we may call…
The Kolkata Intellectuals, transnationalism and Digital Diasporas
Examining Kolkata intellectuals and “digital diasporas”, this project increases the knowledge about and further the theoretical agenda in a rather neglected research area; migration, trans…
Upward Anthropology at AAA 2014
As most of you probably know, the American Anthropological Association annual meeting is being held in our home town of Washington DC December 3-7. As promised, we will…
Varieties of community currency
LETS and ‘open money’ The late twentieth century saw a revival of self-organized credit money, paradoxically in the leading centres of western capitalism. LETS, meaning ‘Let’s do it’,…
Chinese queries | 百度一下
屌丝一个: “Seriously speaking, is 100 wan enough to get out of China?” 飞飞: “You Baidu yixia first, see which country is a bit more reliable” Failed suggestion for…
Coca-Cola Life Launch: Inspired Creative
thenarcissisticanthropologist: Now that this product has hit the shelves in the U.S. I’m doing a “Throwback Monday” to honor product innovation and marketing that makes the universa…
打酱油 | Digital folklore & Tumblr as a research tool
What the notebook adds to this strategy of alliance with the fetishism of commodities, however, is that the very instrument of research is a fetish. In English we…
Standardardizing Species: Listening to, Representing, and Universalizing Bird Sounds in the 20th Century
I’m excited for Alexandra Hui’s upcoming talk November 4th at UC Davis and for the chance to act as discussant of her paper. She will be the second…