In the recent issue of Imponderabilia Heid Jerstad critizes the lack of anthropological research on climate change. Climate change is only present on the margins of anthropological research, Jerstad claims. A similar critique was formulated by Simon Batt… more »

It happened already around 200 years ago: Aboriginal Australians marry Indians. Afghan cameleers open up the interior of Australia for transport and development. Indian seamen fight for Indonesian independence. And long before Australia was colonised by… more »

Is this one of the first real web2.0-journals in anthropology? Today, a new Open Access journal was launched: Anthropology Reviews: Dissent and Cultural Politics (ARDAC) is no traditional journal. It was developed from within a social network site (N… more »

Even rather conservative organisations are able to act and protest: In an official resolution, passed on Saturday, The American Anthropological Association has condemned the new immigration law in Arizona. The association will refuse to hold scholarl… more »

The first issue of the Popular Anthropology Magazine is out. It was meant to bridge the world between academia and the public and between anthropologists and continents. Cool, we needed that. But the result is - in my opinion - disappointing. For it was… more »

The time is right for more anthropologists to engage with news media - with their creation, reception and content, writes S Elizabeth Bird in the recent issue of Anthropology News that was published today.Anthropological engagement with media was lon… more »

Janine Wedel has done something that far too few anthropolologists do: She studied powerful people. Those who rule the world. In her book "Shadow Elite", she shows how a new system of power and influence has taken hold globally, one that undermines d… more »

My post Pecha Kucha - the future of presenting papers? received much attention and inspired others to arrange such sessions where papers are not read but presented through 20 images displayed for 20 seconds each. But I'm no longer sure if I would recomme… more »