Growing up in Austin, Texas, Diez y Seis — Mexican Independence Day — always seemed to hold an official, albeit minor, status in the state capitol. This was not a holiday that we observed in ...
https://savageminds.org/2017/09/16/remembering-the-mexican-revolution-with-aunt-julia/
I first started blogging about anthropology and comic books back in 2012 in an occasional series titled Illustrated Man. It lasted for about nine posts before petering out as other projects deman...
https://savageminds.org/2017/08/12/illustrated-man-10-the-vision/
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Vidula G. Khanduri. A STEM major at Wellesley College, Vidula enjoys dabbling in the crossroads of politics, science, technology, and society. She’s an av...
https://savageminds.org/2017/06/08/fire-the-zora-neale-hurston-story-book-review/
Savage Minds is pleased to announce our first workshop in artisanal anthropology. As we imagine a future for our discipline that is both sustainable and ethical, it is necessary that we look to t...
https://savageminds.org/2017/04/01/artisanal-anthropology-workshop/
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Stefano Portelli. Stefano is a cultural anthropologist with a doctorate in Urban Studies, his primary fieldsites are a barrio of Barcelona and the Ostia neighb...
Tis the season. As my professor friends hustle to write final exams and grade them, only to press through to letter grade submission and finally revel in winter break I am reflecting on my absenc...
https://savageminds.org/2016/12/15/faculty-work-librarian-work-and-life-balance/
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Cthulhu, Great Old One and Special Collections Librarian at Brown University. When the puny mortals at Savage Minds invited me to review the latest work by Don...
https://savageminds.org/2016/11/18/staying-with-the-trouble-making-kin-in-the-chthulucene-review/
We here at Savage Minds want to hear from you, our readers. To further this goal we are creating a new “Reader Letters” feature and we encourage you to share your thoughts, reactions, and ref...
https://savageminds.org/2016/11/17/now-accepting-reader-letters/
Anthro/Zine, a venue for undergraduate publication from the team behind Anthropology Now, has entered its second year of publication. The premise behind the project is to provide a space for coll...
https://savageminds.org/2016/06/24/the-anthrozine-strikes-back/
After ckelty’s post on the SSRN/Elsevier merger fellow mind, Ryan Anderson, gave me a shout out in Twitter, ArXiv for social science research anyone? @savageminds @culanth @haujournal @jmtrombl...
https://savageminds.org/2016/05/24/what-is-arxiv-and-how-can-we-get-one/
Weber’s metaphor of the iron cage is one of the most famous in all of sociology. It’s certainly stuck with me: I keep a bookmark in my copy of The Protestant Ethic (Talcott Parsons’ transla...
https://savageminds.org/2016/02/03/infrastructure-as-iron-cage/
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Pablo Figueroa. Pablo is an assistant professor in the Center for International Education at Waseda University in Tokyo. In this position, he teaches cour...
Last May I introduced you to Anthropozine, a new undergraduate venue associated with the journal Anthropology Now. The concept behind the zine was to get college students interested in engaging ...
https://savageminds.org/2015/11/18/return-of-the-anthrozine/
More so than any other person in my mother’s extended family, Julia was a person who was truly loved. She helped to raise her mother’s children, then her own children, her many nieces and nep...
https://savageminds.org/2015/10/30/four-ghost-stories-from-aunt-julia/
When the Homo Naledi discovery was announced I was excited to see that the initial publication was in an open access journal, eLife. In fact to me this was a huge relief for, now that my adjunct ...
https://savageminds.org/2015/09/16/homo-naledis-other-revolution/