The real message of advertising?
If the art of advertising (one of them anyhow) is closing the distance between the brand and the consumer, you can’t do much better than this. Do we…
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Recognizing Indigenous Pacific Struggles in the Lei at Selma
By Hinemoana of Turtle Island: Lani Teves, Natalee Kēhaulani Bauer, Fuifuilupe Niumetolu, Maile Arvin, Kēhaulani Vaughn, and Liza Keanuenueokalani Williams Last week during the 50th year commemoratio…
Good Mother Nature: Ayahuasca neoshamanism as cultural critique (conference video)
This paper imports nuances of nature-culture theory in Amazonian anthropology and demonstrates ways in which the reimagining of ayahuasca use in Australian society involves the modern idea of…
Human Economy postdoctoral fellowships and doctoral scholarships
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA THE HUMAN ECONOMY RESEARCH PROGRAMME POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The University of Pretoria’s Human Economy Research Programme has funding for six postdocto…
Pacific Islanders March for Self-Determination
Pacific Islanders March for Self-Determination by Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu Photo by Dan Bacher. Part of the Pacific Islander (Melanesian, Micronesian, Polynesian) Contingent at the major Climate Change M…
Creativity, innovation, and the space between cultures
Anthropologists are drawn to places where culture is a little shaky. Normally, culture supplies the meanings and rules with which we understand and navigate the world. And normally,…
Mean meme mobs?
I was watching someone’s pre-Oscar red carpet show last night from my hotel room in Panama City and came sharply to. Joanna Coles (Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief) remarked in passing…
Consumers, users, clients, subjects: Towards people-centric collaborations
People working in consumer finance who want to share perspectives across different sectors and disciplines face a communication problem: finding a shared language to talk about people and…
Huli i ka Muliwai
Huli i ka Muliwai by Liza Keanuenueokalani Williams I speak to the Muliwai. That murky place – that dark place, green with salt and pink with sweet waters greet…
Secrets of digital celebrity: how to get famous the easy way
When Guy Kawasaki was asked how to get internet famous, he had discouraging news. There is no easy answer, he seemed to say. You have to follow thousands…
G E R Ä U S C H K U L I S S E — IM FRÜHLING
Wir lauschen gemeinsam einem Feature und kommen dann ins Gespräch … _MONTAG, 30.03.2015 , 21 Uhr FEATURE-MACHER JOCHEN DREIER ZU GAST Komm vorbei! Bring deine Freunde mit!
the middle class (thinks it) knows best: daring to intervene in disadvantaged households
Photo credit: http://earlyed.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/articles/images/dad_reading_to_baby_0.jpg (with Lizzie Fagen and Kathleen C. Riley) [On the American Anthropolo…
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…
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…