Earlier this month I had the opportunity to interview Christian Zlolniski about his ongoing work in Baja California, Mexico. I contacted Zlolniski in hopes of getting some more insight about the ...
In a previous post, I described the process of an ‘Ethnocharrette’ – essentially a strategy that incorporates aspects of design methodology into anthropological practice. As part of a longe...
Encounters with art and design by an anthropologist and curious non-expert in visual culture. Since starting to work alongside an artist and a designer, I’ve become more aware of ethnographic p...
This is Part III of an interview with Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, who is an assistant professor of anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. Her 2011 book, Labor and Legality, explores the work and so...
This is Part II of an interview with Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, who is an assistant professor of anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. Her 2011 book, Labor and Legality, explores the work and soc...
Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz is an assistant professor of anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. Her 2011 book, Labor and Legality, explores the work and social lives of undocumented busboys in Chicag...
This is the second part of my interview with Karen Brodkin. Part I is here. Ryan Anderson: All of this has me wondering how this is happening in US anthropology. As a discipline, we have this s...
“Rage. Tears. Grief. Rage.” These are the words of Kalaya’an Mendoza, Amnesty USA Senior Organizer. Kalaya’an was on the advance team supporting the work of Human Rights Observers in Fer...
The following is an interview with Karen Brodkin, Professor Emeritus in the UCLA anthropology Department. Ryan Anderson: You co-wrote an article back in 2011 with Sandra Morgen and Janis Hutchi...
https://savageminds.org/2014/11/15/anthropology-still-white-public-space-brodkin/
Earlier this month I sat down with Eduardo Kohn to talk about his amazing book How Forests Think. We started out discussing his intellectual influences and ended up ranging widely over his book...
https://savageminds.org/2014/06/02/an-anti-nominalist-book-eduardo-kohn-on-how-forests-think/
NICOLAS NOVA. design researcher. ethnographer. ANTHROPOLOGY + DESIGN. The word “design” is problematic as it’s often related to furniture and glossy magazines at the local newsstand. And ...
https://savageminds.org/2014/02/14/anthropology-design-nicolas-nova/
(This guest post comes from Ståle Wig. Ståle has recently completed a research based MA in Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, with a thesis on development workers in Lesotho. He ...
https://savageminds.org/2014/02/14/divorce-your-theory-a-conversation-with-paul-farmer-part-one/
Recently I Skyped with Tim Elfenbein, managing editor of Cultural Anthropology to talk about the journal’s transition to open access distribution. Elfenbein, 39, took over the position of manag...
This email-based interview with Karen Kelsky is part of the Anthropologies Student Debt Issue (#20). Kelsky runs The Professor Is In, an academic career consulting business. She is a former t...
(Savage Minds is pleased to run this interview with Kirin Narayan as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Kirin is currently professor in the School of Culture, History and Language at Austra...
https://savageminds.org/2014/02/03/ethnographic-writing-with-kirin-narayan-an-interview/