Game of Thrones and Anthropology Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology Sometimes people worry that anthropology’s central preoccupations won’t resonate with the wider public. But just one look at Game of Thrones proves that’s not true. Prominent Anthropologist Welcomes Football Team Name Trademark Cancellation American Anthropological Association In a move that was hailed … Read more
Anthropologist studies unifying potential of diversity Phys.Org Southeast Asia is about as far as one can get ? geographically and culturally ? from Iceland, where Hjorleifur Jonsson was born and raised. Yet it is this region that drew his interest as a budding anthropologist, and the area where his focus has remained. ASU anthropologist … Read more
Anthropology and the Latest Afghan War (2001?Present) Peace Research Institute Oslo ????The idea of contracting anthropologists to assist in counterinsurgency contexts ? with monitoring, analysis, networking ? is an old one, reinvigorated in the context of the NATO-led Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, initiated in 2001. Computers and Sociocultural Anthropology Savage Minds: Notes and … Read more
What the well-dressed fieldworker is wearing this summer (ii) 32 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog by Matthew Timothy Bradley / 4d // keep unread // hide CLOTHES FOR FIELDWORK, PART 2: OUTERWEAR The initial entry in this series focused on some commonly taken for granted pieces of clothing?underwear, hats, and scarves. In this entry we move on to discussion … Read more
Open access is organic: on the Journal of Material Culture Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology Back in December Haidy Geismar, the incoming editor of The Journal of Material Culture (published by Sage), published an editorial mooting the future of JMC as an open access journal and asking readers to weigh in by taking … Read more
11 Cutting-Edge Thinkers That Anthropologists Should Be Paying Attention to Right Now! Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? Well it wouldn?t be an unpaid internship in the 2014 if the bosses upstairs didn?t have me doing a listicle, so I?m proud to present to you a new feature: The Savage Minds Rundown. … Read more
anthropology + design: anne galloway. [This post is part of a two-week series featuring interviews with designers reflecting on anthropology and design.] ANNE GALLOWAY. designer. ethnographer. archaeologist. ANTHROPOLOGY + DESIGN. Andrew Curran – Before Anthropology: Enlightenment ?Science? and the … The Daily Voice Wesleyan professor Andrew Curran will be looking back at an era before … Read more
Anthropology Blogs 2014 Anthropology Blogs are a way to understand What is Anthropology. For 2014 I revisited the previous 2013 Anthropology Blogs and 2012 Anthropology Blogs. The blogs included here have all published since June 2013. New Resource for Emerging Anthropologists Two important lessons we learned at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Chicago: 1. Recent graduates in anthropology are … Read more
New American Ethnologist Virtual Issue on ?In/Visibility: Projects, Media, Politics, 2012-2013? NEW! American Ethnologist virtual issue on ?In/Visibility: Projects, Media, Politics, 2012-2013? ? FREE articles for 2 months. Guest edited by Samuel Martínez, organizer of our 2014 AES spring conference on the same theme. Looks of early European revealed Genetic tests reveal that … Read more
Introduction to Anthropology, Culture by Islamic Thinkers Iran Book News Agency Mohammad Heidaypour and Mahmoud Azimi Rasta have jointly compiled a new book in assessment of the views by Islamic and Iranian thinkers onanthropology and culture. IBNA: Arranged in three major parts, the book delves into the nature, generalities Tons of newly published open anthropology When … Read more
Lawrence of Arabia as anthropologist To be honest, I was surprised how much attention Peter O?Toole?s recent passing received. We all knew he was famous, but we also learned this week how deeply he was loved. Many people loved him because he had that one thing that is so hard to find in the entertainment … Read more
Cybersecurity algorithms, techniques being developed through anthropology methods This article is a repost from Newswise and is written by Kansas State University?s Greg Tammen. Experts in anthropology and cybersecurity at Kansas State University are examining the unspoken knowledge shared by cybersecurity analysts as a way to develop new automated tools that help analysts … Read more
Anthropologist Genevieve Bell leads a team at Intel’s Santa Clara, Calif. campus, attempting to forecast future uses for the company’s chips. On Tuesday morning, Oct. 29, 2013, Bell explained how a whimsical robotic kiwi the “Data Monster” visualizes internet-based data sets. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) ( Karl Mondon ) Intel’s anthropologist helps chipmaker prepare … Read more
The History of the Personality of Anthropology This week?s SMOPS is an edited version of Kroeber?s ?A History of the Personality of Anthropology,? a piece which Kroeber wrote very late in his life. In it, Kroeber lays down his vision of anthropology?s unique outlook. In one striking passage, he describes anthropology as a ?changeling? discipline. … Read more
Clickthrough Anthropology Blogs ? October 2013 I keep all the Anthropology Blogs 2013 in a big Feedlysubscription. Got behind and scrolled through over 400 articles in the last few weeks. These are the things that caught my interest, recent anthropology blog-posts that seemed worth a clickthrough. I?ve tried to do some rough groupings … Read more