Doing research on concepts of well-being at home or outdoors poses a paradox. Doing that research is increasingly likely to endanger our own well-being, as universities increasingly try to squeeze more juice out of academics.From the MacArthur Foundation website Shannon Lee Dawdy is an archaeologist and anthropologist who links scholarship with historical preservation to illuminate the history of the Atlantic World since 1450. In addition to work on the Southeast United States and Caribbean, Dawdy has produced insightful studies of New Orleans from its establishment as a French colony [...]
: 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 27 09 10 13:47:12, by Lorenz Categories : religion cosmology Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing journal articles papers interdisciplinary Theology's turn to Ethnography : New OA journal Practical Matters I’ve stumpled upon a rather new Open Access Journal called Practical Matters This publication of Emory University is both interdisciplinary and intermedia i.e . . multimedia The most recent issue nr 3 is called Ethnography Theology In their introduction Lerone Martin and Luke Whitmore write : Many scholars of religion who did not begin their scholarly careers asWelcome to a special web video edition of Around the Web. Its better than vitamin fortified coffee! Comics! Games! Anthropology! turned up a treasure trove of cool Flash animations available on the YouTube channel QualiaSoup. I’m envious over the enticing flow of words and pictures in these videos and plan on emailing my Gen Anth [...]Back-to-back guest blogging goodness here at Savage Minds this month. I’d like to tank Michael Powell for sparking lots of interesting discussion and, in the same breath, welcome our new guest blogger: Simone Abram. Simone Abram is currently doing participant observation on employment practices in UK universities, but she’s not planning to write it up [...]The latest number of the Journal of Archaeological Science — yes, I read the Journal of Archaeological Science — has another ingenious piece on how people learn to competently knapp stone tools. For over a century archaeologists have been teaching their students how to make stone tools by hand, both as a way to learn [...]Please don’t e-mail us or post a comment letting us know that one of your comments is in moderation. At least not right away. We try to check the moderation queue as often as is humanely possible, and if it is there we will see it. Occasionally, something goes to the SPAM queue instead of [...]
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 13 09 10 01:14:05, by Lorenz Categories : anthropology general Secret knowledge exchange at Europe's largest anthropology conference A bit more than two weeks ago , around 1300 anthropologists from all over Europe left the university village Maynooth not far away from Dublin . Europe’s largest anthropology conference , the biennial congress of The European Association of Social Anthropologists EASA was over . As usual , hardly any information about the knowledge that was exchanged at the conference , found its way to the public . Here is what I . found Eoin O’Mahony , geographer at