Anthropologists are storytellers. We tell stories: other’s stories, our own stories, stories about other’s stories. But when I think about anthropology and storytelling, I think also of some...
https://savageminds.org/2015/10/19/anthropology-as-theoretical-storytelling/
Every article, book, or thesis begins with a first word, but getting started feels overwhelming. My worst prose derives from disorganized thinking and writing, and over the years I’ve experimen...
https://savageminds.org/2015/01/11/ethnographers-as-writers-getting-started/
I wanted to take a little bit of time today to shamelessly plug my friend and co-author Biella Coleman’s new book Coding Freedom. When the book first came out I wanted to right a full review o...
UPDATE 2/9/13: A bit of a correction to the title here. I called this post “DeLong and the economists on Debt” but it should have been called “DeLong, the political scientist (Farrell), a...
https://savageminds.org/2013/02/09/delong-and-the-economists-on-debt-chapter-12/
What is it with Polity and biographies lately? The British press has unleashed a slew of new biographies in the past few years. The have translated Joachim Radkau’s biography of Max Weber (all...
https://savageminds.org/2012/12/26/polity-rocks-the-biographies/
One of my favorite journals when I was a graduate student was Cambridge Anthropology. It was a small, obviously DIY production of the Cambridge Anthropology department that was filled with wonder...
https://savageminds.org/2012/08/02/mad-shouts-out-to-cambridge-anthropology/
In preparation for my course on anthropology and oil in the fall I’ve done a lot (a lot) of background reading. Moving from the mining industry into oil requires orientation to a whole differen...
https://savageminds.org/2012/07/06/lets-nip-this-crude-thing-right-in-the-bud/
Anthropology report is running a round-up piece on empathy in anthropology and its centrality to our discipline. It’s a timely subject, given the recent edited volume on the topic. In this post...
https://savageminds.org/2012/04/03/empathy-or-seeing-from-within/
What better way to spend your winter break than to read all those books you didn’t have time to read because you were busy reading other books? I thought I’d mention a few things that are on ...
The “Bauhaus Optischer Farbmischer” (via Mabak) The title of this post comes from a 1930 article in Man which discusses the superiority of such tops over various other ways to measure skin co...
https://savageminds.org/2011/08/06/racial-differences-in-skin-colour-as-recorded-by-the-colour-top/
The latest issues of Cultural Anthropology is out, featuring new editors Anne Allison and Charles Piot. A new feature of the journal that I was surprised to see was the inclusion of ‘playlists�...
I just went through the “Section Prizes” page of the AAA website and listed all the award winning books and articles listed there. I limited myself to works published after 2008 which I could...
https://savageminds.org/2011/01/05/award-winning-anthropological-writing/
Since we’ve just entered the 10th year of U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan (well, 10 years this century) it seems a good time to say a few words about Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Spe...
The latest number of the Journal of Archaeological Science — yes, I read the Journal of Archaeological Science — has another ingenious piece on how people learn to competently knapp stone too...
https://savageminds.org/2010/09/16/stone-knappers-of-knowledge/
I am a late adopter of Twitter (r3x0r — feel free to follow me), and one of the nice things about being late to the party is that all of your old friends have already arrived and had a few drin...
https://savageminds.org/2010/04/06/two-books-on-indigenous-methods/