• University Websites

    Updated: 2010-07-30 16:03:44
    From xkcd.

  • Ethnographic Video Online

    Updated: 2010-07-29 05:40:36
    As someone who both makes and teaches visual anthropology, I have long decried how difficult it is to access and research ethnographic films. Back in high school I relied on the now-defunct Donnell Library to do a research paper, and I’ve yet to find anything comparable – until now. I impressed with the initial efforts [...]

  • Digital Media Firms as Cultural Systems

    Updated: 2010-07-28 22:58:39
    Working with digital media producers for the past few years I’ve begun to confuse their language with my other professional nomenclature, that of an anthropologist. Is this indeed confusion or a result of finally doing my job of seeing broader cultural systems in those practices? Here’s the deal. Digital media firms using experimental methods with [...]

  • Around the Web

    Updated: 2010-07-28 04:54:53
    Racism at the USDA: The Institute for Southern Studies puts the current fiasco surrounding the firing of Shirley Sherrod in perspective with this historical primer, “It’s an astonishing development given the history of race relations at the USDA, an agency whose own Commission on Small Farms admitted in 1998 that ‘the history of discrimination at [...]

  • New: Search Open Access Anthropology Journals

    Updated: 2010-07-22 19:01:23
    I’ve reorganized the overview over open access journals and added a search feature. Now you can search the contents of around 100 journals in anthropology and related fields. It seems to work, have a try!Original post blogged on antropologi.info.

  • On Beyond Tenure

    Updated: 2010-07-22 04:40:11
    The above chart comes from a recent widely circulated article in the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “Tenure, RIP: What the Vanishing Status Means for the Future of Education.” Similarly, the New York Times asked “What if College Tenure Dies?” on its Room for Debate blog. In response, Amardeep Singh asks whether the actual numbers [...]

  • He’s The Prettiest

    Updated: 2010-07-19 14:11:10
    A couple of years ago Strong asked if ‘The Wire’ wasn’t “Our Best Ethnographic Text on the U.S. Today?” Well David Simon and Eric Overmyer are at it again in Treme, which is full of nuanced detail about New Orleans music and society. I’m still catching up, but after watching five episodes of the show [...]

  • The return of colonial anthropology?

    Updated: 2010-07-19 13:46:30
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 19 07 10 15:46:30, by Lorenz Categories : politics Us and Them Asia anthropology general ethics The return of colonial anthropology A dysfunctional ethnic and tribal brawl has been the norm in Afghanistan for centuries . Afghanistan is a mess . Who said that A frustrated U.S . military officer No , a professor of anthropology , Robert L . Moore In his article Tribes , Corruption Ail Afghanistan in The Ledger he shares his concerns about the difficulties for us” the U.S . military to push this contentious country into the 21st century” and turn it into a normal , stable country” that

  • Welcome guest blogger David Beriss

    Updated: 2010-07-17 15:22:53
    I first met David Beriss through the Society for the Anthropology of North American (SANA). In 2007 SANA held its annual meeting in New Orleans as an expression of solidarity with the city after the disastrous floods of Katrina and Rita. David Beriss is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the [...]

  • For more anthropology of climate change

    Updated: 2010-07-11 15:00:45
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 11 07 10 17:00:45, by Lorenz Categories : ecology nature anthropology general journal articles papers interdisciplinary For more anthropology of climate change Photo : The World Wants a Real Deal , flickr In the recent issue of Imponderabilia Heid Jerstad critizes the lack of anthropological research on climate change Climate change is only present on the margins of anthropological research , Jerstad claims . A similar critique was formulated by Simon Batterbury in his article Anthropology and global warming : the need for environmental engagement But several climate anthropologists

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