Video games as applied anthropology from ICCI Home Pursuing its ambitious development, the ICCI blog has decided now to open a “video games” section. And today, we are discussing the release of Civilization V, the last sequel of one of the most famous series in the history of video games. New overview: Discover hidden treasures … Read more
Yemen is not a terrorist factory CNN International Editor’s note: Daniel Martin Varisco is a professor of anthropology at Hofstra University and has visited Yemen over a dozen times for development consulting and research since 1978. He moderates Tabsir, an academic blog on Islam and the Middle East. (CNN) — Domino theorists love the Middle … Read more
Anthropology and Publicity – new blog (and workshop) from antropologi.info – anthropology in the news blog by Lorenz In a new blog called Anthropology & Publicity several authors discuss the reasons for the underexposure of anthropological knowledge and explore ways to improve its dissemination and application in society. The blog is part of a workshop … Read more
?Multispecies Ethnography”: a special issue of Cultural Anthropology from Somatosphere by Eugene Raikhel J ust when you thought it was safe to engage in human exceptionalism?. Cultural Anthropology comes along with a special issue on ?Multispecies Ethnography. ? Anthropology and the Long Essay from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog … Read more
Anthropology on the Ropes at Howard from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog by Matt Some faculty at Howard University write: Dear Friends and Colleagues, This is a Call for Action regarding the possible closing of the Anthropology Program at Howard University. On September 23, 2010, Howard University President Sidney … Read more
Anthropologists adopt a more favorable view of Neanderthals from Wash Post Europe by Marc Kaufman Scientists are broadly rethinking the nature, skills and demise of the Neanderthals of Europe and Asia, steadily finding more ways that they were substantially like us and quite different from the limited, unchanging and ultimately doomed inferiors most commonly described … Read more
E-workshop on digital and media anthropology starts now!! from media/anthropology by John Postill ** via Media Anthropology Network mailing list ** Dear All Welcome to our e-workshop on digital and media anthropology! As I said in a previous announcement, we thought it would be interesting to continue on this mailing list the face-to-face conversations we … Read more
Intel’s cultural anthropologist CNN By Michael V. Copeland FORTUNE — About 40 Ph.D. studentsin computer science, potential recruits for chip-giant Intel, have just finished listening to a lecture on the intricacies of circuit design and processor architecture at one of the company’s R&D centers just outside Portland, Ore. The conversation is complex, detailed, and very … Read more
VIRTUAL ISSUE: WATER – CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS AND COMMENTARY from Cultural Anthropology by acarse CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS AND COMMENTARY BY STEFAN HELMREICH Authors were posed the following questions, their answers follow: TWO BOOKS TO ANNOUNCE: News Online Transformations and Continuities Graham Meikle and Guy Redden Palgrave Macmillan Introduction: Transformation and Continuity – Graham … Read more
Secret knowledge exchange at Europe’s largest anthropology conference from antropologi.info – anthropology in the news blog by Lorenz A bit more than two weeks ago, around 1300 anthropologists from all over Europe left the university village Maynooth not far away from Dublin. Europe?s largest anthropology conference, the biennial congress of The European Association of Social … Read more
The Loaded Goat: Revisiting Pine Cone Anthropology in Afghanistan from OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by M. Jamil Hanifi The diary of Ted the Tongue reveals more about the poverty of the academic thinking and conduct that provisions the ?Comparative Cultural Competence? (or is it ?Cross-Cultural Competence??) component of the U.S. Army?s Human Terrain System (HTS) than the … Read more
11th EASA Biennial Conference: Maynooth, Ireland 24-27th August 2010 Crisis and imagination I have arrived Maynooth, a beautiful town near Dublin, Ireland. There are several Turkish friends attending and we did hang out today in the streets of Maynooth. Our sign of Turkishness today included passing on red lights (as passengers of course- green lights … Read more
An archive of interviews with anthropologists from Somatosphere by Eugene Raikhel Alan Macfarlane interviews Clifford Geertz in 2004. As a number of anthro blogs have mentioned in the past, Alan Macfarlane, of the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge, has assembled a massive online archive of video materials, including a lot of in-depth interviews with … Read more
To better phrase, this blog is in the top 10 blogs produced by anthropologists. My blog is not an exclusively anthropology blog (it could never make it so Savage Minds blogroll) but still maintained by an anthropologist… check out here or here