Anthropologizing: 10 Distinctive Qualities of Qualitative Research
Reblogged from Research Design Review: Researchers conduct qualitative research because they acknowledge the human condition and want to learn more, and think differently, about a research issue than...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Anthro in the news 8/5/13
• When prayer becomes addiction Intense prayer among some Christians can become an addiction, as described by Tanya Luhrmann, professor of cultural anthropology at Stanford University, in an op-ed for...
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: What are we looking for?
In an article called The Machine Zone in The Atlantic, these breathtaking stats about on-line photos are revealed: "Facebook is the single largest photo sharing service in the world. In 2008, when the...
View ArticlePopAnth - Hot Buttered Humanity: Not Hollywood, by Sherry B. Ortner
Not Hollywood, by Sherry B. OrtnerHollywood films tell lies. They are unreal, fake, entertaining. Independent films tell the truth. They are dark, depressing, angry, violent, edgy. Hollywood films...
View Articletrinketization: Foucault/Paul by Sophie Fuggle
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View ArticleAAA blog: Looking for a Job?
Build your job seeker profile at the AAA Career Center. With more optimal mobile viewing experience, recently formatted job seeker pages, simplified navigation, and prominent placement of valuable...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: British Museum has best spring ever
British Museum has best spring ever
View Articleanthropologyworks: Word choices, word choices
I rarely blog about my personal peeves. I try to keep it all professional. So excuse me if I rant a little bit here. It’s about words that annoy me. I am sure you have your favorites, too. More than a...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Ornery
Amber Woodward, an attorney for the federal government living in Dallas, TX (originally from the Kansas City area), recently had a run-in with her father-in-law when she called him "ornery". I'll let...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Narcissism in Emerging Adulthood
Yesterday the NYT had a feature on Jean Twenge's work — Douglas Quenqua, "Seeing Narcissists Everywhere", 8/5/2013 — and also "A Back and Forth About Narcissism": The social-science journal Emerging...
View ArticleAAA blog: Graduating an Anthropologist: What I’ve Learned as a Summer Intern
Today’s guest blog post is the AAA/AFA Summer Intern, Rachel Nuzman: Long before graduating from Saint Mary’s College in May, though exponentially more as the date approached, I got asked the two...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Into the darker ages. Turkish court condemns...
Turkish court says French book ‘too explicit’ Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals said Guillaume Apollinaire’s did not fall under freedom of speech Turkish board cites ‘telekinesis’ as possible cause of...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Ergenekon verdict aftermath. A roundup…
Turkish leader accused of witch-hunt as army coup plotter is jailed for life Police fire teargas at protesters outside court as critics say Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used trial to weaken military Turkey is...
View ArticleArctic anthropology: From the Gold Road to the Golden River of Ivalo and its...
(text by Terhi Vuojala-Magga, photos Stephan Dudeck) Visiting Terhi in Kuttura was an adventure, once again – and meeting Stephan was a joy, once again (or Steppa, as we call him, in a more familiar...
View ArticleGopk: Teaching (through) the visual in Sociology
Inspired by my colleague Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova's research paper just published in The Anthropology of East Europe Review, I thought a lot about my teaching experience in Moscow this year. Elena's...
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: A secret artist in our midst
I live in a little Connecticut town called Rowayton. We were briefly the Oyster capital of the world. We also played midwife to the first business computer. But nothing much has happened in the last...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Ornery fystes
With respect to the recent discussion of "Ornery", there's a relevant passage in George Lippard's 1848 novel Paul Ardenheim, the Monk of Wissahikon: The broom, that peculiar weapon of all lonely and...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: Gibraltar Row and more…
Q&A: Gibraltar row What is latest dispute between Spain and Gibraltar about? Between a rock and a hard place: Is Spain breaching EU law by making life difficult for Gibraltarians? The...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: Bollywood and Violence
Irfan Ahmad, a political anthropologist, writes in Al-Jazeera about Bollywood and violence in India: On July 31, a shocking incident took place at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), one of...
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