Niccolo de’ Conti (and others) on the Lontar Palm
Yesterday I put up a post about Niccolo de' Conti, one of the more interesting Europeans to visit Indonesia before the sixteenth century. His account…
Yesterday I put up a post about Niccolo de' Conti, one of the more interesting Europeans to visit Indonesia before the sixteenth century. His account…
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What th…
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What th…
Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What that something else is has been notoriously difficult to name, pre…
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What th…
At some point this year, my dissertation shifted from a (largely unwritten) traditional ethnography to an intentional experiment on writing/thinking/doing disability as a scholar. This was a change…
By Rayna Elizabeth If you are thinking of pursing a career in academia or as a writer in general, you might want to attempt to submit your research…
Recently I found a website that offers fiction as therapy. You have a consultation of sorts and they send you away with a list of novels to read…
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the task of writing a literature review? Frustrated by your students…
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
You get to a point in your life where you start to reflect on your skill set and your current responsibilities and you wonder whether these match up…
My book group (I say with inner pleasure at finally belonging to one) usually decide on books to read for the coming months by asking for suggestions from…
Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography: literary-ethnography: This is a podcast from a panel session sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology at the 2009 American Anthropological Asso…
Writing looms large in my life now. I’m getting better at it than I was. I like short form [140 characters] but adore longer form, like blogs. And…
In the 2002 rom-com About a Boy, Hugh Grant plays a well to do bachelor who lives off the royalties of a song his deceased father produced. With no…
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Lindsay Bell In the middle of the teaching term, summer is the far away season where you imagine that all of your academic,…
100 words I stood on the edge of the square… a lot of strangers were there… I heard the echos of their grey talking about the weather… You…
(*This paper is part of a larger place mapping project.) The least preferred places in Riga tended to be mentioned by teens where they had concerns about their…
I'm learning classical Malay (that is to say, the language used in Melaka and the Malay world at the time of the Portuguese conquest) and I'm starting with…
On behalf of PopAnth’s editorial team, I am pleased to announce that today we launched a new version of PopAnth – Hot Buttered Humanity! The new version is…
One of the things most guaranteed to raise my considerable ire is the bizarre and frequently incomprehensible jargon of modern social/cultural/socio-cultural anthropology. I'm not a fan of the…
This is the time of year when our Masters students are starting to think about how they’re going to write their theses. It can be a daunting concept!…