Anthro roundup: “Decentering “the human” at the interfaces of anthropology and science studies?…

Decentering “the human” at the interfaces of anthropology and science studies?  Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology   This entry is part 19 of 19 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Kristina Lyons #AnthroForward Post-Election Resources American Anthropological Association by Anne Kelsey   On December 7th the AAA asked our members to join us in a live … Read more

Anthropology roundup: Ethnographers as Writers… “Ebola Teams Need Better Cultural Understanding…

Zora Neale Hurston, The Making of an Anthropologist  Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Irma McClaurin Little did Zora know that moving to New York from Washington, DC, where she was a student at Howard University, would forever change the trajectory of her life. When Zora landed in Harlem, she … Read more

Cyberculture Agenda: Facebook 690,000-user psychology experiment…

Facebook manipulated 690,000 users’ News Feeds to run a psychology experiment  The Next Web by Jon Russell Facebook is more than just a social network, it is also officially an online science laboratory. The company has revealed in a research paper that it carried out a week-long experiment that affected nearly 700,000 users to test the effects of transferring emotion … Read more