Ephemeral Layers: Coffee, Snapchat, and Violence Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Uzma Z. Rizvi For decades, ephemeral layers at archaeological sites have been the bane of my existence. The moment I read, hear, or have to confront it at an excavation, my soul does a smh. How can we … Read more
Just revised my stuff and decided to assign readings below. I hope we will have a productive semester. I will need to polish it up a bit but this will give you a sense of what we are up to this semester;) MED 521 Cyber Anthropology for Media Studies is a course designed for Media … 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
Savage Minds Interview: Kristina Killgrove Kristina Killgrove is a biological anthropologist at the University of West Florida. Her research focuses on theorizing migration in antiquity and on understanding urban development and collapse through the analysis of human skeletal remains. She works primarily in the classical world, attempting to learn about the daily lives of the … Read more
Labor unrest on Everest is older than you might think from FP Passport by Marya Hannun The thin air and vertiginous slopes that exist at 20,000-plus feet above sea level on Mount Everest may not make for the ideal battleground — but they certainly make for a captivating one. So on April 27, when … Read more
Opening our anthropological conversations: An Interview with Tom Boellstorff from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog by Ryan I had the chance to conduct an email-based interview with Tom Boellstorff during this past month to explore some of his views about Open Access (hereafter OA) publishing in anthropology. Update: You … Read more
Anthropological Field Research in the Internet Age from Ethnography.com by Tony Another classic question in the age of the internet: How do indigenous peoples feel about anthropology graduate students doing fieldwork? Mark Dawson first reported his research about this subject in a classic post here at Ethnography.com on April 1, 2007. Facebook Anthropology ? … Read more
In Memoriam: Michel-Rolph Trouillot from American Anthropological Association by Joslyn O. Photo courtesy of University of Chicago Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 62, world-renowned anthropologist and historian, died July 5, 2012 following long struggles to recuperate from an aneurism suffered in 2002. Born in Haiti on November 26, 1949, Trouillot came to the U.S. in 1969, during the … Read more
Ordering the Social ? Producing Change: New Ethnographies of Turkey in Transformation Information Titel Ordering the Social ? Producing Change: New Ethnographies of Turkey in Transformation Date 24. – 25.06.11 Location Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology, Istanbul Downloads (PDF) Workshop Ordering the Social Abstracts Program Flyer Poster Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology, Istanbul, June … Read more
Virtual Youth Issue Discussion Page Virtual Issue: ANTHROPOLOGY and YOUTH Cultural Anthropology‘s virtual issue on youth engages both longstanding anthropological themes, such as politics, religion, and consumption, as well as contemporary concerns including media, popular culture, and migration. With political and economic unrest washing through North Africa and the Middle East, youth are positioned, … Read more
Anthropology Love Letters from Neuroanthropology by daniel.lende On Valentine?s Day, Rex at Savage Minds called for love letters to anthropology. This idea is simple: in the next seven days, for a few thousand words, somewhere public on the Internet, write about why you like anthropology. Then we?ll make the guys at Neuroanthropology do a round … Read more
Human genetic variation: the first 50 dimensions from Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog by Dienekes Here is a huge data dump for anyone interested in human variation. Part of the reason I started the Dodecad Project was to be able to analyze data on my own, rather than having to squint to make sense of a plot, … 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