By Rucha Ambikar The day after Trump won the election, I went into my class as usual. I was setting up the smart podium, when a student in the first row turned back to another student to chat. I ...
https://savageminds.org/2017/02/20/teach-america-great-again/
This is post in the #teachingthedisaster series comes to us from Maria L. Vidart-Delgado. Maria lectures in the Anthropology Program at MIT and is also the co-founder of Department of Play. I t...
https://savageminds.org/2016/12/07/teaching-the-anthropology-of-elections-in-times-of-trump/
On Wednesday morning, amid the turbulent mix of feelings that washed across the country and beyond its borders, an anxious existential question took hold of many of us: “what the f***k do we do...
Here in the US, it’s Veteran’s Day (in Canada it’s Remembrance Day, in England it’s Armistice Day, and it’s worth thinking about what those differences mean). The utterance you’re mos...
https://savageminds.org/2015/11/11/the-erasures-of-thank-you-for-your-service/
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/
With breathtaking paternalism, the Obama Administration has decided ‘something must be done’ in Syria. The “something” it has in mind is the dropping of dozens of Raytheon’s BGM-109 b...
https://savageminds.org/2013/09/02/thinking-about-the-somethings-to-be-done-about-syria/
I want to begin by applauding the New York Times and Danny Hakim for devoting considerable energies to their … Continue reading Valuing Life, Death, and Disability: Sorting People in the New Y...
If you Google “$3.7 Trillion” and “war” today, you’ll find a torrent of news coverage about the newly released Costs of War report authored by the Eisenhower Study Group based out of Br...
https://savageminds.org/2011/06/30/costs-of-war-doing-the-numbers/
On March 15th, I moderated a panel at RISD called Picturing Soldiers: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Contemporary Soldier Photographs featuring photographers Lori Grinker, Jennifer Karady, Suzanne ...
https://savageminds.org/2011/04/20/what-tim-hetherington-offered-to-anthropology/
Since we’ve just entered the 10th year of U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan (well, 10 years this century) it seems a good time to say a few words about Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Spe...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (where you probably don’t get WiFi and won’t be reading this), you’ve heard something about the release on Sunday of 92,000 primary documents culled...
https://savageminds.org/2010/07/28/raw-and-cooked-facts-in-wikileaks-afghan-war-diaries-2004-2010/
Jason Motlagh posted a nice short piece about anthropology and HTS at Time.com on Thursday. Motlagh points out some key issues at the heart of the HTS acrimony and makes note of both the AAA’s...
https://savageminds.org/2010/07/02/hts-and-anthropology-political-terrain/
Below is an occasional post by Zoë H. Wool. Zoe is a doctoral candidate in socio-cultural and linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation is titled Emergent Ordinaries...
https://savageminds.org/2009/11/24/language-and-the-media-in-fort-hood/