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The Uncultured Project2 comments

dlende wrote 3 weeks ago: The Uncultured Project is about fighting global poverty, about one man’s decision to try and m … more →

Human Terrain Team member blog by Ben Wintersteen4 comments

llwynn wrote 1 month ago: Readers familiar with the ongoing discussions on the utilisation of anthropological knowledge and th … more →

Tags: blogs, ethics, military, War

RIEP5: Ethnography and The Ivory Tower (MP3)

enkerli wrote 2 months ago: Ethnography in/of/outside academia. RIEP5: Ethnography and the Ivory Tower (MP3) … more →

Tags: mp3, Podcasts, Advocacy, applied ethnography, applied research, Communities of Practise, ethnographer, Ethnography, Health Research

RIEP5: Ethnography and The Ivory Tower (Enhanced)

enkerli wrote 2 months ago: Ethnography in/of/outside academia. RIEP5: Ethnography and the Ivory Tower (Enhanced) … more →

Tags: Enhanced (AAC), Podcasts, Academia, applied research, Communities of Practise, ethnographers, informal ethnography, ivory tower, NGOs

Funerals and Food Coping in Rural Lesotho5 comments

dlende wrote 3 months ago: By Brandon Sparks Imagine you are hungry. You have been hungry for weeks, with no end in sight due t … more →

Tags: Medical Anthropology

Critique – Making a Difference2 comments

dlende wrote 3 months ago: Critique is option #1 in our Top Ten Ways for Anthropologists to Make a Difference, and the principa … more →

Tags: Ten Ways To Make A Difference

Expanding the Top Ten Ways for Anthropologists to Make a Difference

dlende wrote 3 months ago: Last month’s The Top Ten Ways for Anthropologists to Make a Difference outlined how people’s work ca … more →

Tags: Ten Ways To Make A Difference

Patricia Omidian, Applied Anthropologist in Afghanistan, on the Human Terrain System2 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 3 months ago: Dr. Patricia A. Omidian started her work in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1997. She traveled to and conduct … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, Afghanistan, AFSC, Aga Khan University, American Friends Service Committee, hts, human terrain system, Militarization, militarized anthropology

Survey: Applied Anthropology and Military Engagement in the Human Terrain System

Maximilian Forte wrote 4 months ago: This is to announce a survey, prepared and administered by Nikki Kuper (an Honours student in anthro … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, hegemony, human terrain system, hts, Militarization

Public Anthropology by Biological Anthropologists4 comments

dlende wrote 4 months ago: “Public anthropology” is often presented as primarily an effort of cultural anthropology. For exampl … more →

Tags: Evolution, Human Variation

funny thing happened

asnea525 wrote 4 months ago: sometimes one can get caught up in new things, people, and places. sometimes different is so good an … more →

Tags: Self-Realization, Higher Education

Engaging & Dispatching Memetics4 comments

dlende wrote 4 months ago: I am reading the book Engaging Anthropology: The Case for a Public Presence by the anthropologist Th … more →

Tags: cultural theory

Ethics bureaucracies and student research5 comments

llwynn wrote 4 months ago: When I arrived at Macquarie in 2007, I had big plans for my students.  I was scheduled to teach a po … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Education, engagement, ethics, Fieldwork, Macquarie, Macquarie Anthropology, Publishing, Active Learning

Top Ten Ways for Anthropologists to Make A Difference8 comments

dlende wrote 4 months ago: (1) Critique. Our default position, but sometimes it does work. (Just not as well or as often as we … more →

Paul Farmer: This I Believe2 comments

dlende wrote 4 months ago: Paul Farmer is a doctor and an anthropologist, and spoke as part of NPR’s series This I Believ … more →

Tags: Medical Anthropology, Video

Community-Based Work and the Importance of Being Integrative – The Ganey Award and Video6 comments

dlende wrote 5 months ago: In April I had the honor of receiving the Rodney F. Ganey, Ph.D., Faculty Community-Based Research A … more →

Tags: Medical Anthropology, Video

Varieties of Public Anthropology

dlende wrote 5 months ago: So I wrote an overview of Rob Borofsky’s efforts in Public Anthropology the other day. But there are … more →

New books2 comments

Third Tone Devil wrote 5 months ago: Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations, with chapte … more →

Tags: Corporate anthropology, Economic anthropology, Indonesia, S. Ann Dunham

Public Anthropology2 comments

dlende wrote 5 months ago: Yanomami Girl by Victor Englebert Public anthropology happens when anthropologists engage with publi … more →


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