BLOGS A Memory, But Not Remembered April 3, 2024 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, detachment, Essay, memory, Object ethnography, objects, personhood Noah, the Slave Pirate: On Manuals and the Indispensability of Anthropologists February 21, 2024 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Editors' Forum, fieldnotes, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, pirate, representation of anthropology, stereotypes Diversity According to Whiteness October 9, 2023 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, diversity, Hot Takes, inequality, institutionalized whiteness, public discourse, racism, Whiteness “Esteemed, Albeit Slightly Unhinged:” the Portrayal of Anthropology Professor June Bauer in US Sitcom Community June 29, 2023 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, community, Editors' Forum, Hot Takes, reflexive turn, reflexivity, representation of anthropology, sitcom, stereotypes A Better Way to Namasté May 30, 2023 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, commercialism, Everyday Anthropology, Himalayas, namaste, noble savagery, wellness, white alternative spirituality Lost in Quantification: The Microtechniques of Evaluation April 24, 2023 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, international development, KPI, methodology, NGO, quantification, questionnaire Teaching from the Textbooks: An Archaeology of the Current Historical Moment February 27, 2023 / The Familiar Strange / Academia, anthropological theory, Archaeology, Blog, Book Reviews, disciplinary development, history, pedagogy, textbook Purity, Danger, and Handwashing December 5, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / anthropology, Blog, COVID-19, hand washing, Hot Takes, hygiene, Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger, religion, ritual, structural-functionalism Victorian Pseudoscience on a Netflix Budget: “Ancient Apocalypse” and the Paradox of Science Communication Online November 21, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / Academia, apocalypse, Archaeology, Blog, conspiracy theory, hyperdiffusionism, pseudoscience, unilinealism Desires in Gear: The Politics of Kinky Sexuality and Consumption in the Gear Fetish Community November 9, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / bdsm, Blog, capitalism, consumerism, Economic Anthropology, fetishism, Gearheads, Hot Takes, kinks Apprenticing Elsewhere October 24, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / apprenticeship, Blog, embodied knowledge, Embodiment, enskilment, field site, Fieldwork Reflections, knowledge production, sport My Stories of Struggle: Anchoring the ‘Personal’ in a Production Preoccupied with the ‘Propriety’ of ‘Science’ October 10, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Everyday Anthropology, objectivity, personal, reflexive turn, subjectivity, writing Ad-hoc Block: Dystopian Worlds and the War for Advertising September 26, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / advertising, Blog, capitalism, commercialism, dystopian, Everyday Anthropology, marketing, science fiction Choosing Your Own Adventure: My Life as a Teenage Dungeon Master and How It Prepared Me to Become an Anthropologist September 12, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Dungeons & Dragons, ethnographic writing, ethnography, fantasy, Hot Takes, teaching anthropology Metaphysics Is a Piece of Cake August 29, 2022 / lachlansummers / Blog, capitalism, Everyday Anthropology, metaphysics, social construct, sociality of time, temporal experience, time Reflections on Novel Writing in Anthropology August 15, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, ethnographic fiction, Ethnographic Writing Experiments, knowledge production, Morelli’s Detective, narrative construct, positivism, writing A Memory of History or History of Memory? – A War Memorial ‘Simpson and His Donkey’ June 6, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, history, Hot Takes, identity, memorialisation, monument, social memory, symbolism, truth A Nation of Mini-Me’s: Why White Nationalists Need to “Save the Children” May 23, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / abortion, American politics, Blog, conservatism, conspiracy theories, Critical Race Theory, Current Affairs, family, parental rights, Save the Children, White Christian Nationalism Living with Long COVID: A Reflection April 25, 2022 / Clair Zhang / access to care, Blog, chronic illness, Hot Takes, long-Covid, Medical Anthropology, social movements, structural inequalities, uncertainty A Trinket, a Trifle, and a Novel New Disciple: Fandoms and Consecrated Commodities April 11, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, capitalism, Commodification, Everyday Anthropology, Fandom, identity, pop culture, religion Heroes of Our Economy March 28, 2022 / Alex D'Aloia / Blog, Economic Anthropology, economic substantivism, economics, Government, Hot Takes, policy, small business, social economy, work Listening to Metal in the World: Music, Identity, and the Other March 14, 2022 / Jarrod Sim / Blog, Ethnomusicology, identity, listening to the other, Mongolian, Spirituality, subjectivity, viscerality, world music The Weight of History: Doing Fieldwork as an Ethnic Chinese Researcher February 28, 2022 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, ethnoculture, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, fieldwork relationships, identity, national identity, politics Waiting to Be Seen – How I Spent My Time in a Pain Treatment Center as a Patient December 6, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / Autoethnography, Blog, body, Care, Medical Anthropology, medical anthropology, medical system, pain, time Slutever, Pegging the Patriarchy, and Normalising BDSM November 22, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Essay, fetish, Hot Takes, normalisation, otherness, pathologisation, power relations, representation, sexuality Bring Me the Head of Norman Vincent Peale: Self Care and the American Obsession with the Power of Positive Thinking November 8, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Corporate America, happiness, Hot Takes, Max Weber, optimism, Protestantism, toxic positivity, wellness Too Fat to Be an Anthropologist October 25, 2021 / Alex D'Aloia / Blog, ethnography, fieldwork, Hot Takes, knowability, methodology, solipsism, sugar If You’re Seeing This, You Are on Ex-Mormon TikTok October 11, 2021 / Carolyn West / Blog, digital architecture, Everyday Anthropology, Exmo, faith, mormon, post-religious, social media, tiktok Reconnected in a Disconnected World: The Role of Objects in Shaping Practices September 27, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / actor-network theory, ANT, Blog, COVID-19, Everyday Anthropology, Latour, non-humans, objects Breath-taking September 13, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, Himalayas, magic, Shaligram, time Masks and Their Moralities August 30, 2021 / Joe Clifford / affordance, Agamben, Blog, COVID-19, Hot Takes, masks, morality, state of exception, Webb Keane Jathilan Dance: Experiencing the Spirits August 16, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, dance, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, Indonesia, jathilan, rituals, spirits, Visual Anthropology Understanding My Mom’s Unorthodox Healing Practices August 2, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / albularyo, biomedicine, Blog, filipino, Indigenous, indigenous healing, medical anthropology, Medical Anthropology, structural violence Ethnographic Poetry and Academic Writing: A Reflection June 21, 2021 / Jarrod Sim / Blog, Decolonisation, ethnography, fieldwork reflection, Fieldwork Reflections, Indigenous, indigenous, poetry, Taiwan, vecik A Five Course Degustation for the Changing “Australian” Palette June 7, 2021 / Matthew Phung / Blog, cultural identity, Everyday Anthropology, food, identity, representation, sensory anthropology, social change My Divine Pet Rock May 24, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / academia, Blog, Everyday Anthropology, gender, gendered roles, humour, negotiating authority, professionalism The Moral Economy of the English Football Fan in the Twenty-first Century May 10, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, class, community, consumption, Economic Anthropology, Essay, football, inequality, moral economy Exploring Faith and Space with Hillsong Church April 26, 2021 / Carolyn West / Blog, branding, Essay, Hillsong, religiosity, rituals, space, worship Holding Belief in Suspense April 12, 2021 / Kylie Wong Dolan / Blog, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, Indigenous Australia, knowledge, ontological tension, parliament house, truth What Is Your Worth? Re-evaluating Human Work in An Automated Future March 29, 2021 / Alex D'Aloia / automation, Blog, bullshit jobs, david graeber, Everyday Anthropology, remuneration, social value, value of work, work Boob Boxes: Post-Mastectomy Prosthetics and the Artifice of Breast Cancer March 15, 2021 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, breast cancer, gender stereotypes, gendered illnesses, Hot Takes, identity, Medical Anthropology, precarity, womanhood Taking Stock in California: Inequity & Grief March 1, 2021 / Julia Brown / Blog, COVID-19, Current Affairs, governance, Grief, Hot Takes, inequity, racism, social change Mission By Mail: Evangelism in a Pandemic December 7, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Christianity, COVID-19, Current Affairs, evangelism, faith, Hot Takes, religion, theology, uncertainty Navigating Lockdown: What Studying Vipassana Mediation Taught Me About Surviving Melbourne’s Intense Lockdown November 23, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, COVID-19, Everyday Anthropology, Hot Takes, Liminality, lockdown, meditation, rules, Vipassana Advertising Change: Presenting a New New Zealander? October 26, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / advertising, Blog, demographic change, diversity, Everyday Anthropology, Myths, national identity, New Zealand, social change Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective Textbook Review October 12, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / belief, Blog, Book Reviews, Christianity, cultural anthropology, eurocentrism, ideological bias, mission, religion, theology Called to the Torah: Navigating Feminism and Jewish Law in Modern Orthodox Communities September 28, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / agency, Blog, feminism, halakha, Hot Takes, identity, modern orthodox, Orthodox Judaism, religion ANZAC Cookies September 14, 2020 / Alex D'Aloia / ANZAC Day, biscuits, Blog, cookies, food, heritage, sensory anthropology The Fallible and the Untrustworthy: Writing Culture as the Unreliable Narrator August 31, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / agency, Blog, Essay, Fieldwork Reflections, habitus, narrative construct, representation, truth, writing culture Strange Work in Familiar Places: Inside Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Border Hotels August 17, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, borders, COVID-19, Employment, Hot Takes, public health, value, workplace restructure Blurred lines and dead chooks in fieldwork August 3, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, ethnography, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, fieldwork relationships, Mexico, reflections, Vulnerability Blokes and their casual racism June 8, 2020 / Matthew Phung / Blog, casual racism, COVID-19, discrimination, Everyday Anthropology, Hot Takes, microaggression, racism, structural violence Balancing Acts: An Ethnographer’s Thoughts on Studying Religion May 25, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, ethnography, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, fieldwork relationships, Himalayas, Hinduism, religion, Shaligrams, Social Anthropology, South Asia How COVID-19 makes us use our bodies differently May 11, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / behavior, behaviour, Blog, COVID-19, Everyday Anthropology, Hot Takes, Marcel Mauss, Pierre Bourdieu, responsibilisation, social distancing, techniques of the body The home, the office and the home-office: What makes it ‘work’? April 27, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, COVID-19, home-office, Hot Takes, office, public/private, work, Work/Life Balance Symbolic confusion and how to flirt with emoji 💋😕 April 13, 2020 / Alex D'Aloia / Blog, emoji, Everyday Anthropology, facebook, language, Science and Technology Studies, semiotics, symbols, technology, translation Taking it Seriously: Comparing COVID-19 to malaria March 30, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, COVID-19, Hot Takes, illness, loss, malaria, prevention, Privilege Beyond the Irish Border: A plague on both my houses in the time of COVID-19 March 27, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, borders, Brexit, COVID-19, existential risk, Hot Takes, Northern Island, Republic of Ireland, social distancing A Cultural Zoo: Shaligram Stone in an Ammonite World March 16, 2020 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Hinduism, Mustang, Nepal, preservation, Shaligrams, Social Anthropology What is Anthropology? A Summary Review of the Second Edition by Thomas Hylland Eriksen March 2, 2020 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / Blog, Book Reviews, education, ethnography, Kinship, nature, Practices of Anthropology, reciprocity, social identity, Theory, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, thought Collecting Relationships: the Phenomenon of Ooshies November 18, 2019 / Alex D'Aloia / Blog, Economic Anthropology, Everyday Anthropology, exchange, Hot Takes, ooshies, ownership, The Lion King, value Other People’s Clutter November 4, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, clutter, colonialism, concealment, domestic help, Fieldwork Reflections, Lae, mess, Papua New Guinea, the embarrassed colonialist “It’s a lot of sand”: An anthropological take on Trump’s Syrian withdrawal October 21, 2019 / Simon Theobald / Blog, desert bloom, foreign policy, Hot Takes, place, racism, sand, Syria, Trump Calling it out: Our Australian rules? October 7, 2019 / Kylie Wong Dolan / Adam Goodes, Australian Football League, Australian Rules, Blog, Everyday Anthropology, Indigenous Australia, racism, The Australian Dream, The Final Quater In University Restructures, is Trauma too Strong a Word? September 23, 2019 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / Academia, Blog, Collective Trauma, communication, corporate restructuring, emotion, fieldwork, neoliberalism, organisational trauma Beyond the sensory art of sorting fruit September 9, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Economic Anthropology, fruit picking, labour, migrants, persimmon trees, Queensland, sensory anthropology, skills “We will give to you so that you can give to us”: A Tale of Two Manuscripts August 26, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Ethics, Ethnographic Writing Experiments, ethnography, media, Nepal, Practices of Anthropology, reciprocity, Shaligram The arguments against climbing Uluru… and why people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones August 12, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, glass houses, Hot Takes, Indigenous Australia, tourism, traditional land owners, Uluru, white Australia The one thing that changed everything: Complex illness & the functional fallacy of a singular cause July 29, 2019 / Julia Brown / Blog, causes, complex health conditions, health agency, Mary Douglas, Medical Anthropology, Order, solutions I did it for the data July 15, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Data, Ethics, Fieldwork Reflections, fieldwork relationships, Hollywood, individual risk, Kimberly Kay Hoang, porn industry Paying back or paying forward: What does it mean to give? July 1, 2019 / Kylie Wong Dolan / altruism, Blog, Everyday Anthropology, Favours, Gift Giving, Marcel Mauss, pay it forward, payback, Practices of Anthropology, reciprocity, the gift Eating Iran: From the delicious to the inedible June 17, 2019 / Simon Theobald / Blog, Fieldwork Reflections, fieldwork relationships, food, Iran, Social Anthropology, Taboo, taste On Being Declared Missing in the Himalayas June 3, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, Himalayas, horses, near-death experience, snow storm, social death, when technology fails Anthropologists and Dragons May 20, 2019 / Alex D'Aloia / Blog, critical separation, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy, Fieldwork Reflections, reality, rules, video games On Writing Ethnography ‘At Home’ May 6, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Ethics, Ethnographic Writing Experiments, fieldwork relationships, human research ethics, intimacy, queer femme ethnography, Sydney Activist Anthropology and the Politics of Doing Good April 22, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / activist research, Blog, Ethics, Ghassan Hage, Indigenous Australia, Pierre Bourdieu, self-determination Weeds don’t exist in the wild: What can that tell us about humans? April 8, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / 'auto-rewilder', Anna Tsing, Blog, context, Everyday Anthropology, husbandry, Matter out of Place, plants, weeds How I kicked chronic migraine (And what that has to do with anthropology) March 25, 2019 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / biopsychosocial model, Blog, chronic migraine, chronic pain, digital health, Digital Health Agency, Everyday Anthropology, Facebook Support Groups, health, health promotion, living with chronic pain, medical anthropology, mental health, migraines, psychology, technology Fluid Masculinity: The case of Krishna March 11, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Everyday Anthropology, femininity, India, Krishna, Love, masculinity, Radha, Rama, religion, sexuality Making an Academic ‘Coven’ February 25, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / academia, Blog, Care, collaboration, Ethics, feminist anthropology, loneliness, writing processes Compassionate Cannibalism February 11, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Beth Conklin, Blog, collective mourning, Consuming Grief, Everyday Anthropology, Grief, Wari community, Western Values Misinterpreting People January 28, 2019 / Simon Theobald / anthropological analysis, Blog, Ethics, ethnography, falsifiability, fieldwork, Iran 5 Tips to Smash out Your PhD in Anthropology January 14, 2019 / Julia Brown / Blog, efficiency, ego, Ethics, meaning, PhD, PhD supervision, productvity, thesis writing MeToo Anthropology December 17, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / #metoo, #metooanthro, academia, Blog, Ethics, fieldwork, Nepal, sexual assault Participant Observation from a First-Timer at the AAA Conference 2018, San Jose December 3, 2018 / Ian Pollock / #Hautalk, aaa conference, Blog, book exhibits, California fires, Conferencing, graduate student experience, Hot Takes A Feminist Analysis of Orthodox Dogspotting November 19, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / anthropology of dogs, Blog, dogs, dogspotting, Everyday Anthropology, feminist analysis, Multispecies Ethnography, puppers, social norms, subcultures Anthrocasts: some things I learned starting an anthropology podcast November 5, 2018 / Ian Pollock / academia, anthropology community, Blog, communication, Ethics, outreach, Podcasting, Uncategorized Observing Real America: A Beginners Guide to Nantucket October 22, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, class, Ethnographic Writing Experiments, Lobster, Melville Society, Myths, Nantucket, USA, wine festival On the Heartbreak of Leaving the Field: Falling in love and going home again October 11, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Fieldwork Reflections, fieldwork relationships, friendship, home, loneliness, social anthropology, Vulnerability Encoding Value: What is cryptocurrency, and what does it mean for society? October 4, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / anthropological theories of value, bitcoin, blockchain, Blog, cryptocurrency, Economic Anthropology, Everyday Anthropology, Theories of value, trust, Western Values Post-Bureaucratic Stress: Reflections on getting a police check in Vietnam September 27, 2018 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / Blog, bureaucracy, cultural capital, cultural translators, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, Matter out of Place, mental health, mundane governance, stress, Vietnam Talking like a child: Language learning for anthropology fieldwork September 20, 2018 / Simon Theobald / Blog, Embarrassment, Farsi, Fieldwork Reflections, fieldwork relationships, Iran, language Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: “I would like the Museu Nacional to remain as a ruin, a memory of the dead things.” September 13, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Brazil, Conservation, culture, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, experts, fascism, Hot Takes, Indigenous culture, material culture, Museu Nacional, Museum fire in Brazil, politics, privatisation of public culture Is Life What You Make of It? September 6, 2018 / Julia Brown / Blog, choosing to care, Everyday Anthropology, free will, inequity, phenomenology, Sarah Bakewell, social change, structuralism When the world invades “the field:” emotion, introspection, and ethnography August 30, 2018 / Ian Pollock / Blog, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, guilt, Pulse Nightclub Massacre, Vulnerability Beyond Stereotypes: Success, failure, and the complexity of women’s education in Iran August 23, 2018 / Simon Theobald / Blog, Broad Agenda, education, Employment, Fieldwork Reflections, gender, Iran, Marriage Is Higher Education a “Family-Friendly” Career Choice? August 16, 2018 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / Academia, academic exploitation, academics, Blog, Broad Agenda, Everyday Anthropology, family, family-friendly, higher education, neoliberalism Gender and Mental health: The need for a wider lens August 9, 2018 / Julia Brown / Blog, Broad Agenda, Everyday Anthropology, gender, Hannah Gadsby, mental health, Schizophrenia, Social Anthropology Imagining new imaginaries for the university August 2, 2018 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / Academia, Appreciative Inquiry, Blog, Book Review, Book Reviews, Everyday Anthropology, higher education, imaginaries, Ronald Barnett, The Ecological University, The future of universities, universities Single Shot: Poisoned Hyena July 30, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / Animals, anthropology, Blog, Ethiopia, Single Shot, Visual Anthropology How academic culture gives us permission not to know July 26, 2018 / Ian Pollock / Academia, action, blinders, Blog, community, convenience, Ethics, Fieldwork Reflections, knowledge, Spirituality What the Tech Sector Could Learn from Anthropology July 19, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / Big Data, Blog, Everyday Anthropology, exclusion, gender, Science and Technology Studies, society, technology Land, Labour & Society in Aceh: Chandra Jayawardena’s unpublished fieldnotes July 12, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / Aceh, Blog, Chandra Jayawardena, Ethnographic Writing Experiments, fieldnotes, history, legacy, online archives, posthumous publication, Practices of Anthropology Does Anthropology Have a Point? July 5, 2018 / Simon Theobald / Blog, China, Counterpoint, Current Affairs, East Asia Forum, Hot Takes, Iran, trade agreements, why anthropology matters Single Shot: War Games July 2, 2018 / Ian Pollock / anthropology, Blog, Indonesia, rituals, Single Shot, visual anthropology, Visual Anthropology Forgotten Violence against Backpackers in Australia June 28, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / Australia, backpackers, Blog, Current Affairs, Fieldwork Reflections, homicide, media, Salt Creek, structural violence Another Life June 21, 2018 / Julia Brown / Blog, clozapine, empathetic imagination, ethnographic voice, Ethnographic Writing Experiments, Practices of Anthropology, Schizophrenia, writing processes The neoliberal university is making us sick: Who’s to blame? June 14, 2018 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / 40-hour-work-week, academia, Academia, academic exploitation, academics, Blog, Everyday Anthropology, higher education, intellectuals, mental health, neoliberalism, Work/Life Balance Single Shot: Contribute a still or moving image from the field June 11, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / anthropology, Blog, film, Mongolia, photography, Single Shot, video, visual anthropology, Visual Anthropology Living Fossils June 7, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, ethnography, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, Fossils, Hinduism, India, Nepal, religion, rituals, science, Social Anthropology, South Asia Hearing Indigenous Voices May 31, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Academia, Australia, Blog, Ethics, Indigenous, Indigenous Australia, reconciliation, Reconciliation The Limits of Academic Freedom May 24, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / Academia, academic freedom, Blog, Fieldwork Reflections, Mary Douglas, Matter out of Place, moral disgust, politics, power, reflexivity, science Saying No to the CIA… and Other Anth Fantasies May 17, 2018 / Ian Pollock / Blog, fantasy, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, knowledge, power, Practices of Anthropology, secrets, spying Expats, Tourists and “Matter out of Place” May 10, 2018 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / Blog, expatriates, expats, Fieldwork Reflections, Mary Douglas, Matter out of Place, Social Anthropology, tourism, Vietnam Talking in Silences May 3, 2018 / Simon Theobald / Blog, disability, Ethics, Everyday Anthropology, family, humanity, intimacy, representation, silence, social health Intimacy and Violence April 26, 2018 / Julia Brown / Blog, Ethics, eye contact, fieldwork, intimacy, Nigel Rapport, Practices of Anthropology, violence What Do We Owe the Informants Whose Data we Don’t Use? April 19, 2018 / Ian Pollock / Blog, Data, Ethics, fieldwork relationships, Indonesia, knowledge, Practices of Anthropology Stephen Hawking, Dis-Incorporated April 12, 2018 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / academia, actor-network theory, Blog, Book Reviews, ethnography, Helene Mialet, hot takes, Stephen Hawking Anthropology Is Boring: Bring Other Books April 5, 2018 / Simon Theobald / anthropology, Blog, boredom, culture, ethnography, Fieldwork Reflections, how to do anthropology Transnational Youth, Culture, and Politics in International Schools March 29, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / adolescents, Blog, Book Review, Book Reviews, colonialism, cultural capital, ethnography, eurocentrism, Indonesia, international schools, third culture kids The Facebook Data Scandal and Why Anthropology Should get More Comfortable with Journalism March 22, 2018 / Julia Brown / Blog, Cambridge Analytica, Curiousity, Everyday Anthropology, Helen Garner, Hot Takes, Investigative Journalism, Louis Theroux, Practices of Anthropology, Virginia Haussegger Anthrocasts: When communities speak, listen and learn March 15, 2018 / Ian Pollock / Anthrocasts, anthropology, Blog, Canada, ethnography, Everyday Anthropology, India, podcast, Podcasting, USA The Revolution that Wasn’t (Yet): Reflections on Iran’s protests two months out March 8, 2018 / Simon Theobald / anthropology, authoritarianism, blog, Blog, Hot Takes, Iran, Islam, podcast, protests, violence Why #MeToo Is Complicated for Female Anthropologists March 1, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / #metoo, Blog, Ethics, fieldwork, individual risk, masculinity, sexual abuse, social solidarity Anthropological Reflections on a Family Death February 22, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / Anglo-Australian Funerals, Blog, Death, Everyday Anthropology, Grief, Individualism, reflexivity, Social Anthropology, Spirituality, Tiwi Islander Mortuary Rituals #WhyWeAnth: Answers on World Anthropology Day 2018 February 15, 2018 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / AnthDay2018, anthropology, anthropology community, Be an anthropologist, Blog, Everyday Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Talking Anthropology, why anthropology matters, Why do anthropology?, Why study anthropology?, WhyWeAnth, World Anthropology Day Invisible Lines, Sacrificial Children and Touchy Subjects: Ethics in Psychiatric Anthropology February 8, 2018 / Julia Brown / Blog, Ethics, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, open truths, reflexivity, Schizophrenia Living and F*cking with Acronyms: A response to Dennis Altman’s call to rethink LGBTI February 1, 2018 / The Familiar Strange / acronyms, Blog, desire, gender, history, Hot Takes, identity, India, LGBTI+, politics Searching For Home (Plate) in Indonesia January 25, 2018 / Ian Pollock / baseball, belonging, Blog, Fieldwork Reflections, home knowledge, Indonesia, kasti, sport Why YOU Should Be an Academic Cyborg (and Maybe Already Are) January 18, 2018 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / Academia, academics, Blog, cyborgs, distributed cognition, Everyday Anthropology, extended mind, hybrids, technology The Price of Eggs: Iran beyond liberalism and capitalism January 11, 2018 / Simon Theobald / Blog, democracy, Hot Takes, hot takes, Iran, loss, neoliberalism, protests, Social Anthropology This New Year, Think About Your Social Health Too January 4, 2018 / Julia Brown / Blog, Everyday Anthropology, intentionality, new year's resolutions, reconciliations, social health, time Inedia with a Grain of Salt December 28, 2017 / The Familiar Strange / Auroville, Blog, Fieldwork Reflections, health, illness, listening to the other, Medical Anthropology, narrative ethnography, Oecussi A Christmas Anth(rop)ology December 21, 2017 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Christmas, Everyday Anthropology, holidays, identity work, Kinship, mental health, rituals, Social Anthropology, sociality Fieldnotes from the AAS/ASA/ASAANZ Conference 2017 December 14, 2017 / The Familiar Strange / Academia, anthropology, Blog, conferences, disciplines, Everyday Anthropology Anthrocasts: Who’s Talking, Who’s Listening? December 7, 2017 / Ian Pollock / anthropology, Blog, Everyday Anthropology, Listening to Anthropology, podcast, Talking Anthropology Unpicking an (A)moral Anthropological Stance: Ongoing Violence in Myanmar November 30, 2017 / The Familiar Strange / anthropology, Blog, ethics, Hot Takes, Myanmar, politics, research, Rohingya, why anthropology matters Unpacking the Yale Halloween Scandal November 23, 2017 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / Academia, academia, academic freedom, Blog, freedom of speech, generations, Hot Takes, millennials, sam harris, social worlds, yale halloween scandal Are You Living in Haste? November 16, 2017 / Julia Brown / Academia, academic exploitation, attention, Blog, consumption, distraction, ethnography, Everyday Anthropology, time Like a Skin November 9, 2017 / Simon Theobald / Australia, Blog, Fieldwork Reflections, Iran, Islam, politics, religion, Social Anthropology, Western Secularism It’s Not Just Your Parents’ Fault November 1, 2017 / Ian Pollock / blame, Blog, culture, Everyday Anthropology, family, parenting, psychology, Social Anthropology In Academia, All You Need is Love October 25, 2017 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / 40-hour-work-week, Academia, academic exploitation, Blog, Fieldwork Reflections, invisible work, love over money, neoliberalism, Social Anthropology When ‘White Privilege’ Becomes Uncomfortably Familiar October 18, 2017 / The Familiar Strange / Australia, Blog, Fieldwork Reflections, India, neo-colonial society, reflexivity, Social Anthropology, White Privilege The Restitution of the Dead October 11, 2017 / Simon Theobald / Blog, colonialism, history, Hot Takes, politics, reconciliation, religious sites, Social Anthropology, Spain In Agreement with Krista Tippett October 4, 2017 / Julia Brown / Blog, differences, Everyday Anthropology, fear, knowledge, self, similarities, Social Anthropology, Spirituality, why anthropology matters Anthropological Hot Takes September 14, 2017 / Ian Pollock / Blog, Hot Takes, knowledge, post-fact era, why anthropology matters Australian Families: Who’s Counting? August 10, 2017 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / Australia, Blog, Everyday Anthropology, family, Kinship, Multispecies Ethnography (Just) A Primate Person July 27, 2017 / The Familiar Strange / Biological Anthropology, Blog, Fieldwork Reflections, interdisciplinarity, non-humans, primates, silos Just ‘Cause You Feel It, Doesn’t Mean… July 20, 2017 / Julia Brown / Blog, Everyday Anthropology, Fieldwork Reflections, intuition, Medical Anthropology, OCD, Schizophrenia, Social Anthropology, social spectrums, Superstition Outsource Your Adulting July 13, 2017 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / adulting, Blog, Everyday Anthropology, gender, generations, invisible work, mental health, millennials, society Ethnographers vs ‘Tourists’ June 22, 2017 / Simon Theobald / authenticity, Blog, ethnography, Everyday Anthropology, fieldwork, Fieldwork Reflections, Iran, tourism, Westerners Are You an Intellectual, or a Member of the Intelligentsia? May 17, 2017 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / Academia, Blog, experts, Fieldwork Reflections, higher education, intellectuals, interdisciplinarity, post-fact era Academic Jargon & Knowledge Exclusion March 23, 2017 / The Familiar Strange / Blog, Everyday Anthropology, exclusion, jargon, knowledge, post-fact era, silos Is Art the Limit of Embracing the Uncomfortable? March 4, 2017 / Julia Brown / access through art, Alt-Right, Blog, Control Left, Everyday Anthropology, politics, psychoanalysis, Trump Trump Misunderstands Iran February 2, 2017 / Simon Theobald / Blog, diaspora, hot takes, Hot Takes, Iran, Muslims, politics, Trump, USA, Visa ban Experiencing Multiculturalism: When is Diversity, Diverse? January 12, 2017 / Simon Theobald / Blog, diversity, Everyday Anthropology, Iran, multiculturalism, politics, post-fact era, USA, why anthropology matters Me & Anthropology at the Dawn of Trump November 22, 2016 / Julia Brown / Blog, Brexit, exclusion, Hot Takes, introspection, politics, Trump, why anthropology matters Related Posts & Pages:Slutever, Pegging the Patriarchy, and Normalising BDSMShare this:
