Over at Neuroanthropology Greg is asking how anthropology can best brand itself. Its a long entry, but don’t worry, you can just make a point of only reading the passages which have been bolded. I’ve argued for some time that anthropology’s brand is diluted by popular representations of it but I’ve never really sat down [...]The title of this post is not a joke. There is increasingly good evidence that sitting too much is very bad for your health. Take a moment to read these two posts: Stand Up While You Read This (NY Times) Can Sitting Too Much Kill You? (Scientific American) The take home point being that “sitting [...]We have two USC post-doc ethnographers of internet culture coming your way in the next month or so, Jenny Cool and Patricia Lange. Dr. Cool is a postdoctoral research fellow at USC’s Center for Visual Anthropology. She conducted dissertation field research on the social imaginaries and practices of media production and consumption in Cyborganic, “an influential early [...]It has been one year since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake decimated Haiti on January 12, 2010. In the weeks after the original tremors, many if not all of us read, watched, and listened to reports of the aftershocks—seismic and social—that turned Haiti into one of the worst disasters on record. On the anniversary of that [...]I just went through the “Section Prizes” page of the AAA website and listed all the award winning books and articles listed there. I limited myself to works published after 2008 which I could find references to online. That means I included books listed in Amazon.com which only received “honorable mentions,” but did not list [...]A comment of mine on the LINGANTH listserv inspired Mark Allen Peterson to write a post on the Society for Linguistic Anthropology blog, encouraging linguistic anthropologists to promote themselves (or at least their Google page rank) in order to promote the discipline. One thing is painfully clear: Linguistic anthropology has a public relations problem. The [...]