The internet is translative boundary object for political thought, situated between four liberal ideologies about freedom and the state, corporation, individual, and the public. The internet is t...
Facebook, Academia.edu, OpenAnthropology.org, ResearchGate — in a world full of social networking sites for social scientists, what is the point of registering for one more? In the past month o...
https://savageminds.org/2012/05/09/surveilling-your-colleagues-for-fun-and-profit-with-wunderkit/
I had the pleasure of interviewing Charles Stafford, Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, about his new anthropology journal Anthropology of this Century. Click below to r...
https://savageminds.org/2012/05/06/anthropology-of-this-century/
I keep returning to the public sphere as Habermas originally described it as I think about progressive political movements of today: Occupy Wall Street and its global dimensions, Anonymous and it...
https://savageminds.org/2011/10/30/the-public-sphere-of-occupy-wall-street/
Someone tell me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the Scribd business model at least something like this: Encourage people to violate copyright by uploading whole scanned books to the Scribd website. 2...
Who is being marketed to in your neighborhood or in the communities you are studying? Enter a zip code and the Prizm market segmentation system returns five socio-economic types (out of a total o...
https://savageminds.org/2010/08/23/jenny-dont-change-your-number/
Next week as many as 50,000 people will inhabit Black Rock City, a temporary metropole constructed by volunteers for a week of personal expression and community celebration on the barren alkaline...
Side by Side is a blog about practices of collaborative art and ethnography – that is using creative methods (such as photography, video, writing, visual art) to represent community and cultura...
Cultural Anthropology’s ambitious website has not been as successful as some might have hoped — it’s forums are dusty (to say the least) and the ‘SuppleMentals’ section is not only an u...
https://savageminds.org/2010/05/02/cultural-anthropologys-virtual-issue-on-business-cultures/
I’ve mentioned before that I maintain a list of anthropologists on Twitter.* Now that list has become a means of collaboratively editing a constantly updated online newspaper, thanks to the web...
https://savageminds.org/2010/01/13/twitter-time-es-anthropology-edition/
I’d like to think the reason I am so critical of our professional organization is not that I am some sort of curmudgeon, but because it so often fails to get anything right. In the spirit of gi...
https://savageminds.org/2009/11/25/lets-give-it-up-for-the-aaa-blog/
My good friend Eric Ross (author of the classic The Malthus Factor; check out his awesome essay in my book Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War) wrote a lengthy analysis of the Janice Harper ...
https://savageminds.org/2009/08/28/janice-harper-and-the-public-intellectual/
It is not that easy to track down, but James Fernandez’s homepage is definitely worth checking out. Fernandez is, of course, an extremely well-known anthropologist with a long history of writin...
https://savageminds.org/2009/08/21/current-and-past-adaptive-lifeways-of-the-proprietor/
We here at Savage Minds would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to one of the pioneers of anthropology blogging, Lorenz Khazaleh, on 5 years of Antropologi.info!
https://savageminds.org/2009/08/09/congratulations-on-5-years-of-antropologiinfo/
Over at BoingBoing Carrie McLaren points us to the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement. Despite its annoying flash-based interface, the site is a useful resource. It’s hard to belie...