Podcast Round up: Best of May
Did you hear the one about the sperm and the consultant? No? How about ‘why did the UFO cross the road’? (Was it too…
Read MoreDid you hear the one about the sperm and the consultant? No? How about ‘why did the UFO cross the road’? (Was it too…
Read MoreIn her Keynote “On little and grand narratives in Central Asia” (28 March 2019), Allie Judith Beyer investigates the inter-linkages between orality, narratives, textual…
Read MoreHilary Parsons Dick’s multi-site ethnography Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants is based on fieldwork conducted between 1997…
Read MoreAnthropologists are known for being great travel buddies. Take one (or more) with you to Vietnam and Ghana by way of Malta or the…
Read MoreFei Xiaotong, the late Chinese anthropologist, believed that the best way to study China was by acquiring “intensive, firsthand knowledge of Chinese society itself.”…
Read MoreThis interactive piece was inspired by a year of teaching myself Old English, and my interest in the interactive ethnography, The Long Day of…
Read MoreLet me begin this second part of my non-linear surveying of digital ethnographies by quoting the anthropologist Tom Boellstorff once more. Along with him,…
Read MoreI’ll start with the most embarrassingly candid disclosure one could possibly make in the context of this thematic week: I am not such a…
Read MoreAllegra Lab asks its readers to please consider giving their signatures to a collective letter we have drafted to the Minister of Science…
Read MoreNew year, new events! The start of a new year makes us strangely aware of the passing of time – so don’t forget to…
Read MoreAll I want for 2019 is anthropology. In my ears. By way of a discussion with an author about their new book. I hope…
Read MoreIn her book, Managing Ambiguity, How Clientelism, Citizenship and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Čarna Brković writes in a style comparable to…
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