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Update 1 April 2015: See also PDF version. Last week I was in Manila to attend the 4th meeting of the RightsCon series, held on 24-25 March 2015. This series of conferences seeks 'to advance soluti...
his paper develops an understanding of gender as something fundamentally technological, and as such broken.
By Anne Lacey, antedoteThe first time I drove across the United States, I couldn't help but be struck by how different each state and region feels. Even so, I saw that there were clear commonalities that tie together to make the U.S.
Slut-shaming, the public exposure and shaming of individuals for their (perceived or actual) sexual behavior, is rife on the Internet; it primarily affects women, and it too often has tragic outcomes.
Past research on gender online has made important land gains but under-theorizes the Internet as a passive, fixed, and somewhat insubstantial space or context.
Since I first encountered the notion of a calling, I’ve found it a difficult category to expunge from my thought.
Money has long fascinated me, and not for the obvious reasons. Although I’d like to have more of it, my interest is largely philosophical. It is the ontology of money that has always disturbed me. Ever since I was a child, collecting old coins and hoarding my pocket money, I’ve wondered why it is that certain physical tokens can function as money and others cannot. What is money made from? What is it grounded in? Why do certain monetary systems fail and others succeed?
How Do Digital Technologies Deepen Ethnographic Practices?
Culture takes variegated forms, including lived experiences, social interactions, memories, rituals, transactions, events, conversations, stories, gestures, and expressive disciplines like music and dance. These processes and artifacts of social life make an ethnographer’s job as analyst and cultural documentarian dynamic and challenging.
David G. Victor calls for the IPCC process to be extended to include insights into controversial social and behavioural issues.
Using statistics to quantify the most qualitative emotion: love
Why Anthropologists are perfectly trained for a profession they’ve never heard of.
The first clue that anthropology is taking over the world is in the March 2015 issue of American Anthropologist, where Virginia Dominguez writes that she is Taking Over the World.
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Here are the questions, right up front and center: 1) What drew you to anthropology?; 2) What does anthropology offer that might be missing from our education…
When it comes to examining the relationship between digital technologies and gender, our discourse has fallen into two pre-wired sets of responses: The first set approaches gender as something that is operationalised through the digital, thus...
A few years ago I wrote a short article about the relationship between academic blogging and journalism which received a pretty positive reaction online.
Algorithm has become a well-used buzzword.
In spite of the proliferation of online resources dedicated to the study of the ancient world, there is nonetheless room for the improvement and expansion of methodology and content.
Mao in Tibetan disguise: History, ethnography, and excess
A symposium to discuss the documentation and revitalization of Native Languages will be held April 17 at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Via Charles Tiayon
A revised version of this post will appear in Pink, S., H. Horst, J. Postill, L. Hjorth, T. Lewis and J. Tacchi. 2015, Forthcoming. Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practices. London: Sage. IN 2...
The first institute of advanced study on Ethnology and Anthropology in Inner Mongolia was officially opened on March 28, Saturday.
"The first anthropological emotion is hope" (Carole McGranahan, #AAA2014) and also via Ingold, Trouillot, Lennon & Ono "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"
I’ve often seen events advertised, thought ‘that looks interesting’ and booked a place, giving little thought to how I’ll actually get there on a specific day.
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