Here we go again. If you’re a member of the American Anthropological Association, you should have received an email this past week (10/17) about avoiding copyright infringement. The message was...
Do you ever think about the first time a concept really stuck for you? Not the first time you heard of the concept, but rather the first time it resonated and had meaning. I think about this all ...
https://savageminds.org/2017/07/19/surfing-commodification-everything/
In the waning moments of 2016, one man, armed with an AR-15 and “information” about a conspiracy related to Hilary Clinton, walked into a DC pizza parlor hell bent on finding truth. After a q...
https://savageminds.org/2017/06/03/anthropology-in-an-age-of-dangerous-nonsense-part-1/
Just when you think that The Bell Curve has been thoroughly debunked, it rears its ugly head…again. It’s like a weed that just won’t go away–and that should give us something to think abo...
https://savageminds.org/2017/04/04/this-week-in-anthropological-rebuttals-to-charles-murray/
This was meant to be a book review. Instead, it’s an essay about the power—and importance—of complaining. The book under consideration here is Sarah Kendzior’s The View from Flyover Count...
https://savageminds.org/2017/03/26/kendzior-in-defense-of-complaining/
Here’s the second round of Savage Minds Reader Letters! We asked our readers to share their thoughts about anthropology in the Trump era for this round, and we got some great responses. Thanks ...
https://savageminds.org/2017/03/03/reader-letters-2-trump-edition/
How do planetary scientists understand distant places like Mars or planets orbiting another star? A conversation with Lisa Messeri about “resonance” and the anthropology of space. By Michael ...
https://savageminds.org/2017/02/23/the-resonance-of-earth-other-worlds-and-exoplanets/
By Michael Engelhard* In the new millennium’s politics, polar bears play the part whales played in the 1980s. From a theatrics-as-protest perspective, their shape lends itself better to imperso...
Michael Oman-Reagan just reminded me about an important open access project that’s been in the works for a while now: SocArXiv (thanks @OmanReagan!). I believe @socarxiv has the potential to ch...
In December we published our first installment of our new Reader Letters series. This time around, we’d like to hear what you, our readers, have to say about the new US President, Donald J. Tru...
https://savageminds.org/2017/02/08/call-for-reader-letters-trump-anthropology-due-22017/
Invited post by: Sally A. Applin (@AnthroPunk on Twitter) I recently finished my Ph.D. As a present, a friend of mine gave me a hand. Not help, which he had done during the process, but rather a ...
https://savageminds.org/2016/12/13/amazon-go-and-the-erosion-of-supermarket-sociability/
A few weeks ago we published our first installment of our new Reader Letters series. We want to hear more. Send us your letters! Please keep the following guidelines: letters are to be no longer ...
https://savageminds.org/2016/12/09/reader-letters-2-call-for-submissions-due-122016/
Adam Gamwell rounds out the anthropologies #22 issue on food. Gamwell is a public anthropologist and PhD Candidate at Brandeis University working across food, design, science, and markets. His re...
https://savageminds.org/2016/12/01/of-quinoa-agricultural-science-and-social-change/
Last week we put out a call for letters from our readers. Here’s our first installment. If you’re interested in submitting a letter to Savage Minds, please keep the following guidelines in mi...
https://savageminds.org/2016/12/01/reader-letters-1-post-election/
There’s a certain trope that has been going around for years, and it has hit a peak these days as many people express their collective shock and surprise at recent events here in the USA. The n...
https://savageminds.org/2016/11/23/the-social-role-of-anthropologys-racist-uncle/