Ethnography.com: Opening a window on “The Closing of American Academia”
It has been difficult over the past few weeks to miss Sarah Kendzior’s article in Al Jazeera and the ensuing rounds of reaction and counterreaction in the anthropological blogosphere. In her article,...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Portraits of American Men Holding Hands
Some days the internet is full of cats and cheeseburgers and other days it is full of anthropological nuggets like this collection of American men holding hands. A good reminder to always ask: When is...
View ArticleEthnography.com: General Education, Distance Education and Cotton in my Ears
I spent the day sitting in meetings at my new “home campus” in Lueneburg, Germany, listening to lectures about their new innovative General Education program. And Distance Education. I avoid...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Day 2 of the German Conference on General Education Reform
The conference took interesting turns. Homage was paid to Goethe, Weber, Marx’ Theses on Feuerbach, and Bourdieu on the habitus of academic silos. Not the sort of thing that would have happened in our...
View ArticleEthnography.com: McGee, Boas and the organization of American Anthropology
I found this on the AAA website last week: “The AAA has been a democratic organization since its beginning. Although Franz Boas had initially fought to restrict membership to an exclusive group of 40...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Incidental Anthropology: On “having it all” in France at the...
Today in Slate, there is a wonderful (and brief) article on the presentation of French women in popular magazines around the turn of the 20th century. At this time, magazine editors were moving from...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Incidental Anthropology: Wearing a V-Neck in Malaysia and...
Two things today: First, in a move of dubious methodological validity (though related to the move embraced by the Culturomics crowd and made profitable by the American comedian Jeff Foxworthy) , the...
View ArticleEthnography.com: How the FBI spreads DIYBio
For more than a year now I have been conducting research on DIYBio . In a lucky break, the FBI convened a conference on DIYBio and Security this past summer, which I managed to attend. The conference...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Drinking and Anthropology
In case you’ve forgotten the sage advice of Cindy van Gilder, here is a reminder CINDY’S TOP TEN THINGS ANTHROPOLOGISTS SHOULD NOT DO WHEN THEY ARE DRUNK
View ArticleEthnography.com: Incidental Anthropology: Anti-Circumcision Advocates on...
First, in an example of the internet’s power to concentrate amorphous outrage into a highly focused beam, the reviews for this book have become the schwerpunkt of anti-circumcision “Inactivists.” :...
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