• Multiple realities and the Occupiers ABC published an opinion piece by two cultural anthropologists, Ghassan Hage, professor of anthropology and social theory at the University of Melbourne, and Gerhard Hoffstaedter, a researcher at La Trobe University who take up a lectureship in anthropology at the University of Queensland. They both do research on the [...]
An article in Nature reports that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation realizes the importance of social science insights and indigenous/local knowledge in generating innovative approaches to improving human welfare in developing countries and promoting the adoption of such approaches. This is not news to cultural anthropologists. What is news is that the Bill and [...]
The June 2011 issue is now available on the Popular Anthropology website in the archive and as a pdf at this link.
By contributor Sean Carey Some years ago, when I was an undergraduate I took an annual holiday in Ireland. My friends and I made our pilgrimage to Fouhy’s bar in Glanworth, a village around 30 miles from the seaside town of Youghal, where we always stayed. The pub was situated halfway along the main street, and [...]
• David Graeber is “something of a star” The Toronto Star describes David Graeber, an anarchist and cultural anthropologist who teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London, as being “something of a star.” An article in the Sunday New York Times mentions his role in promoting a “horizontal” rather than a top-down “vertical” leadership structure in [...]
Virtual Humanity: The Anthropology of Online Worlds When: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Where: The New York Academy of Sciences 7 World Trade Center 250 Greenwich Street, 40th floor New York, NY 10007-2157 Online games offer immersive, three-dimensional worlds populated by thousands of characters who form intense relationships, functional economies, [...]
The CIGA Seminar Series Presents Arresting the Killer in the Kitchen: The Promises and Pitfalls of Commercializing Improved Cookstoves by Rob Bailis, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies When: Thursday, November 3, 5:30 – 6:30 pm Where: The Elliott School of International Affairs, Room 505 1957 E Street NW Professor Bailis will [...]
By contributor Sean Carey “My congratulations to the encampment outside St Paul’s for sending almost the entire British establishment into a tizzy every bit as confused as some of the protesters themselves,” writes Andrew Rawnsley in the Observer. The left-leaning newspaper’s award-winning chief political commentator goes on to express his amazement about the massive impact [...]
