Increasingly, our lives are mediated … Continue reading The Privacy Paradox: IRBs in an Era of NSA Mass Surveillance →
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It has been standard practice in anthropology to change the names of the people and places we analyze, but recently scholars have been questioning the necessity and even possibility of keeping pa...
Our final prompt in this series asks about the possible virtues that emerge from the necessities … Continue reading Attention Deficit Ethnography →
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Note: updated on 7/26/2012 for clarity. For this final post in our series, I find myself … Continue reading Decentering Writing →
In this post I’m going to diverge a bit, writing not about my work for Cultural Anthropology, … Continue reading Ethnography’s Sense →
Interdisciplinarity has been another definitive condition of ethnographic production for me. My formal graduate education has been … Continue reading Annual Identity Crisis →
I keep hearing the voice of Harding from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in my head … Continue reading Minding the Gap →
So, in my last post I spoke mainly about my current situation as a post-graduate in employment limbo, experiencing the strain … Continue reading Going Rogue? →
In his late 19th Century sci-fi classic News from Nowhere, Arts & Crafts figurehead William Morris posited an agrarian utopia in … Continue reading News from Lloyd Park →
Note: post updated for clarity Fieldwork is one of those extraordinarily-difficult-to-bracket experiences, as it blithely ignores any sort of compartmentalization of … Continue reading Anthrop...
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Over the past year, I’ve had to carefully consider the meaning of “selling out”. Of my blogger colleagues, I’m probably the farthest removed from academia – … Continue reading Sellin...
What might one find on the sidelines of academia? If you’re the managing editor of an academic journal, such as Cultural Anthropology (CA), the sidelines are … Continue reading Caring for Ou...
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In this discussion by and about anthropologists working at the boundaries of academia, a reasonable place to start is with a statement of academic situatedness. But in … Continue reading Flu...
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My scholarly trajectory leading up to these series of posts on an anthropology blog is perhaps somewhat unconventional, and yet, also more straightforwardly located within the … Continue readi...
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This post is part of a series on the relationship between academic precarity and the production of ethnography, introduced here. Last month I was involved as a planning committee member for a ne...
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