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
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
Just heard that the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology has a special focus: Gezi Protests. That will definitely be a good scholarly and ethnographic source on the subject. But check out the contents below. Not one specific article you will find on new media usage, which was obviously an essential part of Protests. Unfortunately, (mass) … 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
Breastfeeding in public: what is and what is not ?appropriate? I just read about a discrimination case in the San Diego area in which author/educator Rachel Rainbolt was told by her child?s homeschool teacher that breastfeeding was ?inappropriate? behavior during weekly meetings. Read more about this case on her site. First of all, this sort … Read more
Intel?s Anthropologist Genevieve Bell Questions the Smart Watch Genevieve Bell, director of Intel?s user experience research, says companies building wearable computers haven?t figured out why people might want them. Anthropology: Growth and Relevance, Not Popularity Anthropologists can suffer from Jared Diamond envy. Here in the United States we bemoan when Diamond?s latest book … Read more
Dr. Nancy Scheper-Hughes Named First AAA Public Policy Award Winner The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is pleased to announce that its Committee on Public Policy has selected medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes as the first recipient of the new Anthropology in Public Policy Award. Dr. Scheper- Hughes is a nationally-recognized expert on several important health issues, … Read more
Anthropology Co-Citation Graph Recently Kieran Healy posted a link on Twitter to a co-citation graph he?d made to try to understand what philosophers ?have been talking about for the last two decades?? He also posted a nice poster he made from this data [PDF]. I reposted these and mentioned that it would be great to … Read more
Oxford Biocultural Anthropology Bibliography Oxford Bibliographies has just published my entry Biocultural Anthropology into their excellent series on Anthropology. The bibliographies are expert guides to the literature, with introductions to each section of the bibliography as well as short summaries of each citation. Biocultural Anthropologyopens: Anthropology and Archaeology Resource Network Have you added your gray literature … Read more
Anthropology Under the NSA?s Eyes We now know that living abroad or corresponding with someone outside the US makes you fair game for government surveillance. A few years ago I wrote about the difficulties faced by anthropologists working in places like China, where there can be no expectation of privacy.* We now know (as many … Read more