Im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Bernhard Streck
Foto: Christoph Lehmann Einige der aktuellen Studierenden am Institut für Ethnologie der Uni Leipzig kennen ihn noch persönlich aus seinen letzten Vorlesungen am Institut 2009/ 2010, späteren Jahrgäng…
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Fear-bola and the Risk Society
Yes Ebola is real and dangerous, but hysteria and misinformation are socially irresponsible and dangerous… In 1986 sociologist Ulrich Beck published Risk Society. In it he described a…
[Book Review] Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in the Private Sector by Sam Ladner
thenarcissisticanthropologist: Excited to read this. It’s he book I would have written if I had the commitment to write a whole book instead of a blog but looks…
Anthropology at Work
I would venture to bet that the vast majority of us – perhaps in the range of 99% – work for and in powerful institutions. This is obviously…
Lessons on Branding & Loyalty from the Popcorn Seller
How can a brand give something for free that is helpful to their consumers and also creates brand loyalty? Apple has recently shown that this is not easy…
AU PAC 2015 Recap
This past weekend we held our one year anniversary workshop at American University’s Public Anthropology Conference. It was a great session, with many participants (and it was our…
Barley Eaters or Potato Farmers
Are residents of Zumbagua parish barley-eaters or potato farmers? Does it matter? I wondered about this when I saw the difference between what men and women in Quilotoa, a…
“Fixing Culture”: The Case of Olive Garden
thenarcissisticanthropologist: A classic dilemma that so few corporations ever actually take the time to scope and solve. But there is an anthropologically-based solution possible here—starts wi…
Ferguson and the Founding of Sovereign Violence
The following is a post by one of our members, Mike Roller – a modified version of the talk he will present at the upcoming Public Anthropology Conference.…
Love, Haters and Hipsters: The Irony of Being A Millennial
I have officially decided that I’ve spent too much time commenting on a recent Facebook thread started in the last day by fellow bloggers Eve Kerrigan, Rachel Gall and Anna Akbari,…
Public Anthropology – This Weekend!
This is just a reminder that we will be at the Public Anthropology Conference at American University this weekend to stir up some trouble and crack open the…
30% off Materializing Poverty
Rollup, rollup! AltaMira have just sent me discount flyers for my book. If you were considering buying it but were holding off because of the price, now’s the…
Linguistic violence | 语言暴力
I was reading through 《平台魅力与舞台诱惑》 (Platform Glamour and Stage Lure: The Actors in China’s Internet Communication, edited by Yang Boxu and Xu Hong, 2011) when I came across…
Call for Managing Editor
The Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness is looking for a new editor for their journal Anthropology of Consciousness. Anthropology of Consciousness Open Access CALL FOR MANAGING EDITOR…
Upward Allegory: Yertle the Turtle
“That plain little turtle below in the stack, That plain little turtle whose name was just Mack That plain little turtle did a plain little thing He burped…
An Anthropologist on Board
In a recent article in the Financial Times, the philosopher, Alain de Botton makes the case, in a rather fun and light-hearted way, that it is now time for corporate…
Inorganic life and ayahuasca plant spirits
As icons of the difference between nature and culture, there is arguably nothing more opposite than plant life and computers. Such is common sense and is based upon key…
Begegnung von Generationen
In diesem Jahr wird das Institut für Ethnologie in Leipzig 100 Jahre alt. Zu diesem Anlass haben aktuelle Studierende ihre VorgängerInnen befragt. Wie war es in den 1970er…
From a Pacific – Turtle Island Muliwai
By Hinemoana of Turtle Island: Liza Keanuenueokalani Williams, Lani Teves, Fuifuilupe Niumetolu, Maile Arvin, Kēhaulani Vaughn, and Natalee Kēhaulani Bauer We are a group of Pacific Islander women, ac…
The so-called language gap
Thirty million words. That sounds precise….enormous….impressive. That is the estimate by some scholars of the difference in words heard by disadvantaged kids in comparison to kids with advantages….
Mazurka Klandestina
Mazurka Klandestina beschreibt eine Graswurzelbewegung, die das Tanzen zurück auf die Straßen und Plätze der Städte bringt. Ausgehend von Italien treffen sich Menschen informell zur einfachen Freude a…
Physicists, alchemists, and ayahuasca shamans: A study of grammar and the body
Are there any common denominators that may underlie the practices of leading physicists and scientists, Renaissance alchemists, and indigenous Amazonian ayahuasca healers? There are obviously a myriad…
Foaming at the Mouth: World Cup, Ritual and Behaviour Change
Shared feelings and heavily ritualised behaviour commonly define football fans around the world. For decades anthropologists and sociologists have documented beautifully these aspects of fandom. And I…
The Culture Consultant: The Importance of business anthropology – 1/2
“Corporations live or die by their connection to culture”. This quote by the anthropologist and author Grant McCracken brings to the forefront the importance of culture within the…