Anthropology as Open Marriage
When someone types “what is marriage?” into Google, anthropology should be all over the results. Margaret Mead offers lessons for anthropological expertise.
Anthropology Blogs
This category contains a selection of blog posts which are most related to things happening on the Anthropology Blogs. For the most current list of Anthropology Blogs, see Anthropology Blogs 2018. The 2018 update features the new book by Paul Stoller, Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media.
For Anthropology Blogs from six previous years:
- Anthro Blogs 2017 when the anthropology blogs theme was “Anthropology Matters”
- Anthropology Archive Blogs 2016 featured the debut of the Sapiens Wenner-Gren blog.
- Anthro Blogging 2015 may have in retrospect been the high-point for independent anthropology blogs.
- Anthro Archive Blogs 2014 a time when anthropology blogs wrestled with critical social issues.
- Archive Blogs in Anthropology 2013 when anthropology blogs helped create the This is Anthropology initiative.
- Anthropology 2012, the launch year for my project tracking anthropology blogs.
Hackonomy
Bonin Bough’s lecture at Hartwick College on “Hackonomy” parallels recent themes in Introduction to Anthropology and Cultural Ecology.
Links to the Highly Improbable
An anthropologist caught between “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” and “Marginal Revolution: Small Steps Toward a Much Better World.”
Valuing & Devaluing Anthropology
How might sharing anthropology change anthropological research and presentation? An anthropology of value and the value of anthropology during devaluation.
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The Bongobongo and Open Access
The time is gone when anthropologists could find solace in open access, and the reaffirmation that the Bongobongo are “humans just like us.”
Savage Minds Guest Blogging #1
I was a guest blogger for Savage Minds in February 2012. “Taking Anthropology, Introduction” was the first post.
Best Anthropology Blogs 2011 – Reader Survey
After cataloging well over 120 active anthropology blogs in 2011, a reader survey in 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 Minds Neuroanthropology John Hawks Weblog: paleoanthropology, genetics and evolution Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology … Read more
Capitalism, Denisovans, Anthropology in Media
Free PowerPoint for “Anthropology and Moral Optimism”; Denisovan admixture update; AAA news and the 2011 Anthropology in Media Award.
Popularizing Anthropology
Popularizing Anthropology: Learning some “code is poetry” roughly parallels what Ruth Benedict did before publishing Patterns of Culture in 1934.
The First Post
The very first post in 2011. A discussion of branding anthropology rippling through the anthropology blogosphere, and the tiny part I played.