Ongoing Labor Issues at the AAA
Robert O’Brien has posted the first update to the AAA-UNITE web site since July. In it he addresses several labor-related issues affecting the AAA. These include, banning Coke from being served at AAA...
View ArticleDangers of the Mail
BoingBoing’s Mark Frauenfelder writes about a disturbing mural which is on the wall of a federal building in Washington D.C. He quotes a Washington Post article about the 1937 painting: Check out the...
View ArticleSports as Embodied Culture
With the centrality of athletes’ bodies in competition, sports provide a unique perspective in understanding what Susan Brownell refers to as body culture, “a broad term that includes daily practices...
View ArticleCarole McGranahan on Tibet
By way of kicking off our “occasional contributors” project, Carole McGranahan has agreed to write something about Tibet for us, which she will shortly post. Carole McGranahan is an assistant professor...
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AnthroVisions
Lately there has been some discussion here on Savage Minds about what an Anthropology magazine for a general audience might look like. There has also been some discussion about how the anthropological...
View ArticleEthnography of the Virtual
I just finished reading Tom Boellstorff’s ethnography, Coming of Age in Second Life, which I first learned about on Anthropologi.info last year. I have to admit coming to this book with a certain...
View ArticleARC seeks passengers and drivers
One of my various projects is looking for new blood: the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory is looking for people to help with the management of the project. As a collaboratory,...
View ArticleMontogomery McFate and Mary Sapone?
Given all the ad hominems that have been flung at this site of late I was reluctant to post this link, but in the spirit of contextualization — that is to say, solving an ethnographic puzzle — I think...
View ArticleMandatory Wikipedia Edits?
Nat Torkington reports that the RNA Biology journal (published by Nature) requires authors to submit at least one Wikipedia article on their research before they will publish their article. This is...
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Is Roehampton University fourth best for anthropology research in the UK?
UK anthropologists (and academics) may have spent their holidays poring over, gossiping about, ignoring, or otherwise relating to the release of the results of the 2008 research assessment exercise...
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