Savage Minds | Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog - savageminds.org (HTTP) Anthropology in Practice Culture Matters - culturematters.wordpress.com (HTTP) Open Access Anthropology — Promoting Open Access in Anthropology - blog.openaccessanthropology.org (HTTP) An Anthropologist Goes Techno - techantropology.blogspot.com (HTTP) Mapping Stereotypes Project by alphadesigner Get your copy on: Amazon US / Amazon UK / Amazon DE / Amazon FR / Amazon IT / Amazon ES / Amazon Canada / Amazon Japan / Amazon India / Amazon Brazil Atlas of Prejudice: The Complete Stereotype Map Collection
Tips for Critical Reading | Hacktivism - Software Freedom - Feminism Many of my undergrad students ask me about reading tips - how to read academic texts and how to get the most of them. I've heard and read a lot on critical reading, and have made a long list of suggestions that I often refer to when such questions come to me. This time I decided to publish them, so that more people can profit from these tips. Learning how to read strategically, helps students and scholars in general to build good habits of studying and also facilitate the writing of papers works (based on tons of readings). (0) Before starting to read: research about the author; which years did he/she lived; which field does the author come from (anthropoloy, mathematics, sociology, engineering); what is important to know about this person? This preparation will help situate the article within a bigger picture of academic work & increase your understanding of the reading and its meaning for the society and the field of study. What is the main point? (3) Additional points to look at:
Writing an anthropological detective story - Interview with Nancy Scheper-Hughes Part 3/3 By Aleksandra Bartoszko. Oslo University Hospital, Equality and Diversity Unit See part I of the interview Being radical critical without being leftist and part II The global trade with poor people's kidneys Nancy Scheper-Hughes is currently working on finishing her book, which will summarize more than ten years fieldwork on organ trafficking. AB: What is your upcoming book about? – It’s about trafficking - trafficking kidneys and other organs and tissues from people living on the edges of the global economy. – There is also a chapter on the body of the terrorist, which is about cases of the medical abuse of enemy bodies harvested for usable tissues and organs at the Israeli forensic institute, as well as in Argentina during the dirty war and in South African police mortuaries during the anti-apartheid struggle when Black bodied piled up in the morgues. – So this is a very indeterminate form of death and this continues to contribute to people’s anxieties about donating organs.
Anthropology, Moral Optimism, and Capitalism: A Four-Field Manifesto We owe it to ourselves and to our interlocutors to say loudly that we have seen alternative visions of humankind–indeed more than any academic discipline–and that we know that this one . . . that constructs economic growth as the ultimate human value . . . may not be the most respectful of the planet we share, nor indeed the most accurate nor the most practical. We also owe it to ourselves to say that it is not the most beautiful nor the most optimistic. –Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Global Transformations 2003:139. [We lost this brilliant anthropologist in 2012--see Trouillot In Memoriam and free PowerPoint Anthropology & Moral Optimism.] A spectre is stalking Capitalism–the spectre of Anthropology. All the Powers of Capitalism have bound themselves in a crusade against this spectre: the Florida Governor and the U.S. ; DSK and the IMF; Wall Street and Forbes; Napoleon Chagnon, David Brooks, Jared Diamond and Steven Pinker. Anthropology knows that what currently exists does not have to be. .
Organic intellectuals, crossing scales, and the emergence of social movements with respect to AIDS in South Africa By Ida Susser I examine the transmission of ideas, from both scientific research and state-sponsored misinformation, with respect to AIDS in southern Africa. On the basis of research among women in AIDS support groups, advocates with South Africa’s Treatment Action Campaign, and global health activists, I interpret the role of grassroots social movements in relation to organic intellectuals and their abilities to address the commons from the local to the global. See: Conference with national San representatives at Nyae Nyae conservancy, Namibia, 2003.
Survey: Favorite Anthropology Blogs After cataloging well over 120 active anthropology blogs, a reader survey from 22-31 December 2011 asked for favorite anthropology blogs. Anthropology blog readers mentioned 99 different blogs as a favorite, demonstrating a wide and varied field. The top dozen: Savage MindsNeuroanthropologyJohn Hawks Weblog: paleoanthropology, genetics and evolutionSomatosphere: Science, Medicine and AnthropologyContext and Variation: Human behavior, evolutionary medicine… and ladybusiness.Powered by OsteonsHominid HuntingBones Don’t Lie: News and comment on mortuary and bio-archaeologyantropologi.infoAnthropology in Practice: Understanding the human experienceZero AnthropologyLiving Anthropologically There were 75 valid votes out of approximately 150 total. I list a top dozen based on two counts–the first is by points, with 10 points for a first-place mention, 9 points for second, and so forth. Savage Minds, Neuroanthropology, and John Hawks Weblog were clear #1, #2, and #3, by points and mentions.