How Health Systems Hurt Women. Review of Fistula Politics by Alison Heller,…
Medical anthropology has come a long way from its initial focus on the interpretive dimensions of health and…
Yearly Archives
2018
End of 2018: A message from TFS
As 2018 draws to a close, this week on TFS we bring you a special ‘End of Year’ message from our own Ian Pollock,…
Switched on Pop
On this episode of This Anthro Life, hosts Adam Gamwell and Matt Artz are joined by assistant professor and…
Teaching Latin America 2019
In January 2019, I teach “Peoples and Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean” as a one-month…
MeToo Anthropology
I’ll spare you the worst of it but I will tell you that, some agonizing moments later, I was able to reach my field…
Role-playing urgency: bridging climate change knowledge and action?
Image: Adam Fleischmann
“What does it mean to know climate change?” ask Henderson and Long in a 2015 piece for this…
TFS in Bahasa Indonesia: Arkeologi Praktis di Kalimantan
“Penelitian arkeologi bukan penelitian tunggal. Penelitian arkeologi harus ditunjang oleh penelitian disiplin ilmu…
Weaving Social Fabric: The Craft of African Fashion
Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move , an audio collaboration from the Smithsonian…
Ep. #28 Relational Wine: Deborah Heath talks wine anthropology & living with…
“If wine hasn’t been turned into a standardized beverage, there’s room for variation. There’s an appreciation for…
Seven Million Years of Human Evolution
This fascinating visual presentation from the American Museum of Natural History outlines what we know about human…
Cyborg Anthropology Webinar @ EPIC
On December 5, 2018, I gave a webinar on Cyborg Anthropology via EPIC, the leading professional organization for…
Beth Comstock and Kara Swisher on Irritants and De-riskers (coming to a corporate…
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This is a wonderful interview. Two smart people expressing themselves at speed with power and precision. Swisher…
Sins of the Mother
The temptation of transcendence through technology pervades digital life. But there are risks that come with…
Feelings in the field: reflections on fieldwork in murk-o
Image: Nick Seaver (https://twitter.com/npseaver/)
My lower back is sore. There’s a tension that’s rising from the…
All the value that washes into the sea
Failing seawall trying to prevent land (and value) from washing into the sea. Baja California Sur, Mexico, 2012.…
Brazil is going to eat you up! {part 1}
It’s been a long time since I wanted to write something on the current political climate in Brazil. But I always…
Ethics and Access to Technology
On October 20, 2018, I led a panel discussion at the All Tech Is Human ethical tech summit in New York. We…
Sequential art for your shopping cart
In the past two years I’ve had the opportunity to read some really fantastic graphic novels, including a few…
Pricing freelance research & design services
Since I returned to freelancing a couple of months ago, I’ve been spending a great deal of time on the…
Musings from the murky middle ground of climate science and action
Image: NASA (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glacial_lakes,_Bhutan.jpg)
“There are many reasons why people…
Sharing Sonic Space: Music as Home, Soul and Connector
“I hope that more people will listen to more music outside of their own little comfort zone. I think that we enrich…
Color is culture (disruption watch)
Watching for the future feels optional.
Watching for disruption, that’s more urgent.
One way to look for…
Attend the NAPA Networking event at AAA Annual Meeting Nov 17 at 8 pm!
Interested in Business and Practicing anthropology and attending the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological…
How to read a t-shirt (and the future)
Listening for the future is a tricky thing.
If we listen far enough out into the future, we are dealing with very…
Invitation to Join CASTAC for a mixer at the AAAs
As is now tradition, CASTAC and DANG members and friends will gather for an informal meet up at the AAAs later this…
Emerging Technology and Ethics Research Guide – v 1.0
This guide is intended as a resource for students and others interested in current research and controversies on…
Bridging anthropology and user experience design: an undergraduate’s path into an…
This is a special guest post by Melanie Zhang, a 2017 anthropology graduate of York University. She is…
Antonio Delgado will get the job done for NY-19
As you may have heard, mid-term elections are November 6 in the United States. My district is New York 19, which…
1.5ºC: The Future and Present of Anthropology in an Era of Climate Change
Image: Trent Schindler, NASA/Goddard/UMBC (https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate-sim-center.html)…
The Bill Belichick disruption (and what we can learn from it)
(This post was originally published on Medium two days ago. It is reproduced here with light editing only.)
How do…
Are podcasts a wasteland? (with a post script about Kurt Wagner)
This image of Rebecca Walker is from the Wikipedia entry for Third Wave Feminism (I can’t find an attribution for…
Listmania: A Few Thoughts on One Page From a 6,500 Cubic Feet Collection
For much of my work, archival records provide important context for interpreting the documents I receive under the…
Hello, It’s Me
My blog has been just about dead the past couple years, for one reason or another and then another (#Becauselife).…
EASA Media Anthropology Network E-Seminar “The Digital Turn”
The European Association of Social Anthropologists’ Media Anthropology Network is organizing an E-Seminar on…
Want to Work in Applied Anthropology?
If you are attending the 2018 meeting of the American Anthropological Association and seeking a career in applied…
Art is a Movement
Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move, an audio collaboration series from the…
EPIC Evidence with Dawn Nafus and Tye Rattenbury
This Anthro Life is opening the conversation with EPIC (the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community) on the theme…
What are the Latest Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Business…
On April 24, 2018, 74 business anthropologists and students from nine countries met at Wayne State University to…
EPIC 2018 Salon: Ethnography and AI
We are moving into a world in which artificial intelligence and machine learning are shaping the spaces we engage…
Cyborgs and Cybernetics Syllabus
In the fall 2018 semester, I am teaching a semester-long class on Cyborgs and Cybernetics at NYU Tandon School of…
Wakanda University at AAA 2018
This year’s American Anthropology Association(AAA) theme is Resistance, Resilience, Adaptation. The Laboratory of…
The Awe is Shared: Evolution and Public Science with Andrea Eller – This…
Andrea Eller is a biological anthropologist driven by a question of how do our bodies continue to react to things…
Anthropology in Brazil
Antropologia. Uma Introdução
Professor Roberto Jarry Richardson sent me this excellent question:
I am a Brazilian…
SEEKING: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Engineering Education – MEERCat: The…
SEEKING: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Engineering EducationPosition Type: Post-doctoral researcher applying…
Farmers & Foodies of the Future (FFF)
Update August 2018: This guest post by Robert Seguin on “Farmers and Foodies of the Future” was…
Its Only an Evil Cactus if Donkeys Chase You: Ethics and Psychedelics with…
When TAL first interviewed Hamilton Morris, it was shortly after he and his production team had finished season 1…
Anthropology & US Immigration
Update July 2018: This post was originally written in 2013 in an attempt to bring an anthropological perspective on…
Tech Ethnography, Data and Social Justice w/ Dr. Tricia Wang – This Anthro…
Dr. Tricia Wang sees her work consulting as sitting at the crossroads of data and social justice. As a global tech…
Announcing the 2019 Global Business Anthropology Summit
The 2019 Global Business Anthropology Summit will bring together an international group of practitioners, scholars…
Nacirema Thinking
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” has endured as a…