Anthropology Day Photo Contest FoodAnthropology Festival Oyster Grillers, New Orleans, June 1, 2019, photo by David Beriss If you have food anthropology related photos that you want to be famous, SAFN wants to hear from you! We have decided to hold a food anthropology photography competition for Anthropology Day (2/18) this year. Our goal is to collect … Read more
What Makes Vaccines Social? SAPIENS by Emily Brunson and Monica Schoch-Spana Summary container all summary markers are relative to this container: do not change the id (3) [no-caption] Luis Alvarez/Getty Images Now is a pressing time for vaccinating the U.S. population (and the world) against COVID-19. But there are social hurdles that need to be addressed. … Read more
A Startling Link Between Neanderthals and COVID-19 SAPIENS by Daniel Salas [no-caption] Angus Krieg SAPIENS host Chip Colwell speaks with evolutionary geneticist Hugo Zeberg about his surprising discovery of a connection between Neanderthal DNA and a greater risk for severe COVID-19. Zeberg is also a researcher at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary … Read more
Anthropology Image Representation – The Power of Images SAPIENS Anthropology Image Representation – The Power of Images SAPIENS The headlines and powerful prose of the anthropologists and journalists who write for SAPIENS draw our readers in Zeit and again. But, as the art coordinator for the magazine, I also like to think that the images play an important role in … Read more
How to Write an Essay: A Guide for Anthropologists SAPIENS by Nicola Jones [no-caption] FilippoBacci/GettyImages For academics used to the idea of “publish or perish,” writing may seem to be a well-practiced and even perfected skill. But trying out a new writing style for a new audience—from crafting a tweet to penning an essay for the general public—can … Read more
Meanings of masks Meanings of masks Massachusetts Institute of Technology New ways to think about and practice protective masking, from faculty in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. In this series of commentaries inspired by an idea from associate professor of literature Sandy Alexandre, MIT faculty draw on their discipline expertise to offer … Read more
The new Anthropology Journal Ticker (beta): Get updated with recent open access journal articles! antropologi.info – anthropology in the n. How do you stay up to date with the most recent journal articles in anthropology? How do you navigate the growing amount of texts? How do you find something interesting? While most academics might have their … Read more
David Graeber: 1961-2020 Neuroanthropology Anthropologist, activist, and author David Graeber, author of some of the most popular and cutting recent works in our discipline, has passed away at 59 according to his widow, artist and writer Nika Dubrovsky. Some news outlets are saying that the causes are unknown; other suggest he had contracted COVID. David Graeber, Driving … Read more
Activist curators are sharpening the debate on restitution The Economist Activist curators are sharpening the debate on restitution The Economist What Milk-Sharing Communities Reveal SAPIENS by Naomi Lubick [no-caption] Getty Images Heather Wascak was devastated. In 2014, within days of giving birth to a baby girl, Lucia, she was aching to be with her child. “She’s almost 5 days … Read more
An Animated Introduction to the Pioneering Anthropologist Margaret Mead Open Culture by Colin Marshall Modern Western societies haven’t solved the problem of sex, but Samoa has the answer. Or at least it does according to the work of influential anthropologist Margaret Mead, subject of the animated introduction from Alain de Botton’s School of Life above. Her mentor Franz Boas, the … Read more
Introduction: Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus (new series) anthro{dendum} Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Josh Babcock. Ph.D. Candidate in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research examines the public co-construction of language and race in the making of a multimodal image of Singapore. Video conferencing and the limits of representability anthro{dendum} Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger … Read more
The UNESCO Site That Never Was SAPIENS by Durrie Bouscaren The people of Hasankeyf, Turkey, have long enjoyed the nearby Tigris River, seen here in 2019. Recently, the creation of the Ilisu Dam has submerged their town. Burak Kara/Getty Images In some of Zeynep Ahunbay’s earliest memories of southeastern Turkey, birds fly high above the town of … Read more
VIDEO | An anthropologist explains how COVID-19 will change work forever Fast Company VIDEO | An anthropologist explains how COVID-19 will change work forever Fast Company Coronavirus and Coping With Death SAPIENS by Anna Goldfield While sheltering in place in California during the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been spending a lot of time thinking about my graduation day—but … Read more
Why Social Distancing Feels So Strange – SAPIENS SAPIENS Why Social Distancing Feels So Strange Explaining the Emergence of Coronavirus Rituals SAPIENS by Dimitris Xygalatas People in Rome, Italy, go out on their balconies at a specific time to give one another a round of applause during the coronavirus lockdown. Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo This article was originally published … Read more
image source Members of the Media Anthropology shared some resources recently… EASA Media Anthropology Network e-seminars: http://www.media-anthropology.net/index.php/e-seminars Philipp Budka himself started to set up a list of selected resources, and he will appreciate any further suggestions via e-mail or comments: http://www.philbu.net/blog/digital-and-online-ethnography-a-selection-of-resources/ The Berghahn series on Anthropology of Media is yet another source for full … Read more