Anthropology roundup: Malinowski’s Legacy in the Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea… Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss…

Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss – melancholyanthropology The Guardian (blog) Perhaps you are a lover of travellers’ tales. If the voice of this French anthropologist conveys to you nothing more than academic curmudgeonliness, let’s leave it there. But isn’t it a kind of fastidiousness that seems to belong to a vanished .   Malinowski’s Legacy: One … Read more

Literati roundup: Savage Minds piece: “Why the Peer Review Process Works Even When It Doesn’t…

Why the Peer Review Process Works Even When It Doesn’t Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology  by Carole McGranahan [Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by Alan Kaiser as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Alan is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Evansville. He has published on issues of Roman culture in Spain, … Read more