Regular readers might recall that I have an interest in critiques of economics by economists. So I was very happy to learn of “Academic Choice Theory,” a brilliant tongue-in-cheek application of the principles of Rational Choice Theory to the economics profession by Yves Smith, author of ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted [...]What if humanities scholars started doing evolutionary psychology? No, wait. Hear me out. I had never heard of this before I read about it in a news focus piece in the May 6, 2011, issue of the journal Science, “Red in Tooth and Claw Among the Literati,” (Vol.332, p.654). Ordinarily this is something I’d be [...]This post has two purposes. First of all, I wanted to alert everyone to a wonderful new online Anthropology journal called Anthropology of This Century which “publishes reviews of recent works in anthropology and related disciplines, as well as occasional feature articles.” This is as close as I’ve seen to an anthropology focused New York [...]On Facebook that is. Eventually we might get around to adding “like” box to the website, but for now you can just go here. Liking us will allow you to keep up with both new posts and twitter posts via your Facebook account.I wasn’t so sure that it reflexively understood what it was doing with the whole global bio-political-cash-techno-domination thing–so it is an honor to finally hear from @_capitalism_ itself on Twitter! Here @_capitalism_ describes its Twitterverse suchly: “This is my house, this is where I speak my thoughts, this is where I brutalize the masses.” In [...]Anthropologists, and ethnographers specifically, use photographs all the time. Whether on the covers of ethnographies, or interspersed throughout the pages of texts, photographs are a pretty common element of many anthropological publications. Like the ubiquitous locational maps and statistical figures, images of places or ethnographic participants are pretty standard fare. What tends to be absent, [...]Ryan Anderson is currently a third year cultural anthropology graduate student at the University of Kentucky. His dissertation research focuses on the politics and conflicts that pervade tourism development in Baja California Sur. Before anthropology, Ryan spent several years studying and practicing photography and working toward a career in the fine art world. Then he [...]
: antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 04 05 11 04:05:08, by Lorenz Categories : politics Us and Them Northern America Anthropologists : Time to kill the Osama bin Laden myths draft , post in progress It’s not the first time that Osama Bin Laden has died Nevertheless , the Western political leaders , even European leaders who were supposed to oppose death penalty , are celebrating the killing of Bin Laden , and the frontpages of American newspapers are shouting in Wild West style ROT IN HELL as Daniel Martin Varisco documents on the blog tabsir Varisco is one of several anthropologists who have already started commenting this issue . William O . Beeman chair of the department of
: antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 03 05 11 21:47:41, by Lorenz Categories : Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing journal articles papers New open access journal : Anthropology Of This Century via Cognition and Culture Blog More and more open access anthropology journals are popping up . The newest one is Anthropology Of This Century AOTC edited by Charles Stafford from the London School of Economics LSE The journal publishes reviews of recent works in anthropology and related disciplines , as well as occasional feature articles . The first issue was published a few days ago . Apart from a feature article” by Maurice Bloch the issue consists of six book reviews . Although