This two-part post is a collaborative authorship between Taylor R. Genovese and Martin Pfeiffer, a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. For more on Martin’s work see his...
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/
The title of this post – and its contents – was inspired by an anecdote I wrote about in an earlier post in my field blog. Before I proceed, I want to recapitulate it. It was late-August, and...
https://savageminds.org/2016/04/21/are-nuances-like-curry-leaves/
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/
What courses do professors teach and why? Who determines what students need to know? In my department we teach a combination of required courses and elective courses at both the undergraduate and...
https://savageminds.org/2015/04/16/what-were-teaching-this-semester-ethnographic-theory/
So I’m staring at some fieldnotes and trying to sort out the best way to blend my theoretical analysis with my ethnographic data. Where to start? How to find the right balance? Once again, I de...
https://savageminds.org/2015/01/16/ethnographers-as-writers-theory-and-data-part-ii/
Every ethnographer must find a balance between theory and data. Our fieldwork and our specific case studies render our work original, but this work fails to be scholarly if it lacks dialogue with...
https://savageminds.org/2015/01/14/ethnographers-as-writers-theory-and-data-part-i/
(The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry is a program getting under way at the New School for Social Research, where advanced graduate students and junior faculty will have the opportunity ...
For the past two weeks, Colleen Morgan and I have been outlining the background to an actual “media archaeology” project wherein we extend the intellectual and methodological toolkit of archa...
https://savageminds.org/2014/09/22/media-archaeology-drive-project/
Archaeologists and antiquarians have been innovators, assemblers, critical interrogators, and remakers of media and media technologies for at least 500 years. Their outputs have been drawn into b...
https://savageminds.org/2014/09/13/what-archaeologists-do-between-archaeology-and-media-archaeology/
This week, I embark on my 12th year as an adjunct at the College of Southern Nevada (formerly the Community College of Southern Nevada, which I much prefer — they changed the name in a bid to s...
https://savageminds.org/2014/08/26/the-trouble-with-teaching-and-a-call-for-help/
(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/
I didn’t make it to the AAA 2013 meetings. I heard the news though: ontology is the next big thing. I’m not sure what to make of this. I am all for getting your theory on, but so far I ...
https://savageminds.org/2014/01/25/on-taking-ontological-turns/
I thought I would kick off the last morning of the year by chiming in on the comments to Dr.LibertyBell’s very generative second post on empathy here at SM. But I seemed to have found the pos...
https://savageminds.org/2013/12/31/empathy-a-companionate-redux/
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger LINDSAY A BELL In my first post, I proposed that anthropology might be particularly well suited to thinking through the concept of empathy. In North America, �...