Anthropology Blogs, 2011-2012

Anthropology boasts rich and varied blogs. Veteran anthropology blogs feature deep content and now have a history of stimulating commentary. Sophisticated newcomers have joined the field, demonstrating the importance of the online form. There are blogs from each of anthropology’s four fields and at the intersections of biology, culture, archaeology, and language, as well as blogs concentrating on applied anthropology. Reading what anthropologists do is one answer to What is Anthropology?

Antropologi.info runs a very nice collection of anthropology blog feeds, highlighting the most recent entries. This collection also pops up at #1 for a Google search on “anthropology blogs” but some of the other entries in the top 10 results for anthropology blogs are not as reliable. The collection at Antropologi.info is mostly socio-cultural with an emphasis on media and technology. The list below strives to incorporate more biological and archaeological blogs into the anthropology mix.

Anthropology Report depends upon and is inspired by great anthropology blogs. The clickable links below feature descriptions drawn from the about and purpose statements of each blog. Please note that I have had to disable the individual share buttons because of the volume of blog entries, but visit each blog to promote. Please contact or e-mail any changes, additions, or suggestions (or if you would like the whole html file!). Many of these anthropology blogs and bloggers also have smart twitter feeds.

I first highlight the top dozen blogs from the 2011 December reader survey, and then list all in alphabetical order.

Savage Minds
Savage Minds is a collective web log devoted to both bringing anthropology to a wider audience as well as providing an online forum for discussing the latest developments in the field. Savage Minds was founded in 2005 and has been going strong ever since. In 2006 Nature ranked Savage Minds 17th out of the 50 top science blogs across all scientific disciplines. In 2010, American Anthropologist has called Savage Minds “the central online site of the North American anthropological community” whose “value is found in the quality of the posts by the site’s central contributors, a cadre of bright, engaged, young anthropology professors.”

Neuroanthropology
Neuroanthropology examines the integration, as well as the breadth, of anthropology and neuroscience. Sometimes straight neuroscience, other times pure anthropology. Most of the time somewhere in the middle. The blog thrives on intersections and convergences, aiming to mesh the insights of neuroscience and anthropology into a more cohesive whole. Often throw some psychology, philosophy, evolution and human biology into the mix as well.

John Hawks Weblog: paleoanthropology, genetics and evolution
John Hawks is an anthropologist, and studies the bones and genes of ancient humans, trained as a paleoanthropologist. “Paleoanthropology” is more than a specialty within anthropology, or biology. It is an integrated study involving methods and insights from many fields. Unlike many paleoanthropologists, Hawks’ study extends across the entire span of human evolution, the last 6 million years, examining the genetic and environmental causes that made the foundation of our origins. Hawks is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology
A collaborative website covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psychology and bioethics. Encourages a range of viewpoints to raise critical questions, debate and commentary about contemporary and historical matters of science, healing, illness, and the body.

Context and Variation: Human behavior, evolutionary medicine… and ladybusiness.
Kate Clancy is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois. She studies the evolutionary medicine of women’s reproductive physiology, and blogs about her field, the evolution of human behavior and issues for women in science.

Powered by Osteons
Powered by Osteons is a blog about all things bioarchaeological. As a biological anthropologist working in the classical world, Kristina Killgrove writes about skeletons, isotopes, DNA, disease, and the Roman Empire. Her posts cover the gamut from evolution to the role of science in anthropology to critical reviews of the TV show Bones.

Hominid Hunting
At Hominid Hunting, we’ll consider the age-old question “Where do we come from?” by digging into the human fossil record and interpreting the clues recorded in our DNA. We’ll explore the science behind the latest discoveries, imagine how our ancestors lived and ponder the people, places and controversies that have shaped our understanding of human evolution. Hominid Hunting is written by Erin Wayman, an assistant editor at Smithsonian magazine. After spending a month in Ecuador dodging peccaries and looking for capuchin monkeys that didn’t want to be found, she decided writing about anthropologists was better than being one. She has master’s degrees in biological anthropology and science writing.

Bones Don’t Lie: News and comment on mortuary and bio-archaeology
Katy Meyers is an Anthropology PhD Student who specializes in Mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. She is also active in the digital humanities as a Cultural Heritage Informatics fellow, and is the head game designer for an educational video game, Red Land Black Land. She also for the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative, MSU Campus Archaeology, and is a guest writer on Past Horizons.

antropologi.info
A multilingual anthropology portal with news blogs in English, German and Norwegian. The English blog section is antropologi blog.

Anthropology in Practice: Understanding the human experience
Anthropology in Practice (AiP) examines the relationships we share with each other and the world-at-large by drawing on anthropological theory to explain practical, everyday events and behaviors. It invites everyone to consider and discuss the world around them in terms of ethnography and history. AiP is written by Krystal D’Costa—an anthropologist, New Yorker, and Mets fan. Her interests include networks and identities, technology, immigrants, and history. She divides her time as a writer and digital strategist, where she directs user experience design and curates online content.

Zero Anthropology
At its most basic level, ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY is about anthropology after empire, that is to say an anthropology that emerges from the decline of European and North American geopolitical hegemony, that crosses the zero line demarcating the point at which that hegemony nears complete collapse. It is not predicated on salvage, but on resurgence. The project does not lust after recognition and reward by the authorities, and therefore does not enlist itself in the service of dominant elites, and their various “humanitarian imperialist,” corporate, and militarist endeavors. It is fundamentally an anti-imperialist anthropology, an anthropology of empire, an anthropology against empire, and an opening to anthropology after empire. Zero Anthropology seeks to be toxic to power. Maximilian Forte is a professor of anthropology in Montreal, Canada. Areas of special interest have included colonialism and indigenous cultures in the Caribbean, ethnographic film, new media, and political anthropology.

Living Anthropologically
The moral optimism of anthropology can change the world. Jason Antrosio is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hartwick College and edits Anthropology Report.

AAA – American Anthropological Association Blog
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has created this blog as a service to our members and the general public. It is a forum to discuss topics of debate in anthropology and a space for public commentary on association policies, publications and advocacy issues.

Accounting for Atmosphere: The Anthropology of Climate Change
This project is one among multiple possible takes on the anthropological stakes of climate change. It is initiated and run by Jerome Whitington, but the goal is to build a collaborative project appropriate to the challenge of understanding something as complex as climate change. The objective is to approach climate change with enough specificity that precise empirical statements can be linked with the broad significance of climate change’s global scope and geo-historical timescales.

Age of Intuition
A qualitative analysis of 21st century American culture. L.E. Moore has worked in the historic preservation field since the mid 1980s, with a brief interlude in the financial services industry. Residing in Island County, WA, is a cultural resource manager for a federal agency. MA Anthropology, University of Montana (1986); BA Economics, UC Irvine (1983); BA Comparative Culture, UC Irvine (1981).

Aidnography: Development as anthropological object
My name is Tobias Denskus and after a critical learning experience at the Peace Studies Department at the University of Bradford, I became a citizen of ‘Aidland’, working, living, listening to people and experiencing international peacebuilding in Nepal, humanitarian work in Kabul Afghanistan and research into German peacebuilding projects in Macedonia. I just finished my PhD at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex and the wonders of transnational aid communities never cease to surprise me.

American Ethnography Quasimonthly
“American Ethnography is a stranger in a 1972 Riviera, sunburst yellow banged up and dirty, raving coffee madness cruising Main Street of the quiet desert town at 15 miles an hour…”

Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives
How can we use material traces of past lives to understand sex and gender in the past? Rosemary Joyce is a professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley and an archeologist who has conducted fieldwork in Honduras since 1977, starting as an undergraduate. Original interests in settlement patterns and cultural identity in what has long been called the “frontier” of Mesoamerica led to household archaeology, theories of material symbolism, and eventually to questions about how gender, sex, and other intersecting dimensions of identity such as race, ethnicity, class, and age are materialized.

Andreas Lloyd: User involvement through people-centered design and social software
Lloyd is a writer, anthropologist and activist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Works as an independent consultant and researcher.

The Animal Connection
A new perspective on what makes us human. Pat Shipman, Ph.D., is a writer and paleoanthropologist who who writes about science and evolution for non-scientists.

Anthro Brown Bag
Brown Bag lectures in Anthropology departments all over the United States are meant to be places for students to get together, hear new research or ideas, and network with professors and each other. In a nutshell, that’s the goal of this blog as well.

Anthro | Religion | Media
Musings on the intersection of religion, media, culture, and politics…with an emphasis on Islam/Muslims post-9/11.

anthroblogia: anthropo, blogs & –logia: humans, blogs and the study of…
Julian Hopkins is a PhD candidate at Monash University, Sunway campus, researching the commercialisation of Malaysian blogs.

The AnthroLOLogist
Jesse Hession Grayman has degrees in biological and medical anthropology with extensive field experience in Indonesia. Currently writing a dissertation on post-conflict recovery and the peace process in Aceh for a Ph.D. in Social and Medical Anthropology at Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Anthropolaris
Anthropolaris is a joint project of Micah Hughes and D. Alexander Phillips. Micah Hughes is a graduate from Georgia State University (Middle Eastern Studies) with interests in the intersection of religion, politics, theology, and philosophy. D. Alexander Phillips is a student at Georgia State University studying biology and anthropology, with interests in medical anthropology and the study of violence in its many forms.

Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing
A blog about police, policing and security from an anthropological perspective.

anthropologies project
anthropologies is a collaborative online project edited by Ryan Anderson. The goal is to explore contemporary anthropology through essays, short articles, and opinion pieces written from diverse perspectives. There is no single way to define the field, hence “anthropologies.” By presenting various viewpoints and positions, this site seeks to highlight not only what anthropology means to those who practice it, but also how those meanings are relevant to wider audiences.

anthropologe.tk: Anthropology from an undergraduate perspective
Josh Mullenite, anthropology student at Florida International University. Interest in Latin America (particularly Cuba and Ecuador). Completing baccalaureate degree in anthropology along with certificates in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Anthropological Observations
Edward F. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. Fischer works at the intersection of anthropology and political economy. His current research focuses on the ways moral values affect economic rationalities.

Anthropological Research on the Contemporary
Anthropological Research on the Contemporary is devoted to collaborative inquiry into contemporary forms of life labor and language. ARC engages in empirical study and conceptual work with global reach and long-term perspective. ARC creates contemporary equipment for work on collaborative projects and problems in the 21st century.

An Anthropologist Goes Techno
This is a blog about research in cultural anthropology, new media and technology. It is about ongoing, future and past research as well as thoughts about interesting phenomena related to the broad field of culturally oriented study of technology. Jukka Johki is adjunct professor and research fellow at Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä.

the Anthropologist in the Stacks
Donna Lanclos is an anthropologist and folklorist who received her undergraduate training in 4-fields anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999. Her research on the folklore of primary school children in Northern Ireland was published in 2003 by Rutgers University Press as At Play in Belfast: Folklore and the Formations of Identity in Northern Ireland. She has taught anthropology and folklore classes at UC Berkeley, St. Mary’s College in Moraga, CA, and at UNC Charlotte. She has published several articles in folklore and anthropology journals concerning her research in Belfast, as well as her teaching experiences. In 2009, she began a new phase of her anthropology career by being hired by UNC Charlotte’s University Librarian, Stanley Wilder, to be the Library Ethnographer.

Anthropologists for Justice and Peace / Anthropologues pour la justice et la paix
AJP is a Canadian organization for anthropologists interested in supporting struggles for self-determination, decolonizing knowledge production, and resisting the corporatization and militarization of the academy. AJP is a partner of several Canadian peace and social justice organizations.

Anthropology at Large
This blog is an attempt to become more publicly engaged as an anthropologist. It stems from the year 2011, which began with tumultuous events in north Africa and ended with “occupy” movements close to home. Joanie McCollom has a PhD in Anthropology from U.C. Santa Cruz, as well as bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford in Feminist Studies and Anthropology respectively. She studies social movements and conducted fieldwork in Malaysia in the year 2000.

anthropologyworks
Barbara Miller is professor of cultural anthropology and international affairs at the George Washington University. She has done most of her research on gender and health issues in India. She has also studied rural development in Bangladesh, low-income household budgeting in Jamaica, and Hindu adolescents in Pittsburgh. The blog is a project of the Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA) research and policy program of the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Along with several colleagues at GW and anthropological professionals working in the Washington area, Miller founded CIGA in 2002. Its mission is wide-ranging: to promote awareness of the relevance of anthropological knowledge to contemporary issues and to enhance discussion and debate within and beyond anthropology about contemporary issues.

Una antropóloga en la luna

Anthropology.mobi
This page is an attempt to bring about a centralized social network/membership forum for students, professional anthropologists and interested persons. It is also to promote and discuss “of-interest” general topics within the four sub-fields of anthropology (both scholarly works, and just for fun, pseudo-science or Anthropology’s Edge), but primarily the site’s focus will be on mobile, computer and new electronic technology and how it can be harnessed in research within the anthropological and social science fields. It is an upgrade to Nicole’s AnthroPage.

Anthropology.net
Anthropology.net’s mission is to create a cohesive online community of individuals interested in anthropology. This website intends to promote and facilitate discussion, review research, extend stewardship of resources, and disseminate knowledge. To serve the public interest, seeks the widest possible engagement with all segments of society, including professionals, students, and anyone who is interested in advancing knowledge and enhancing awareness of anthropology.

Anthropology Attacks!
Dick Powis is an undergraduate student at Cleveland State University’s Department of Anthropology. Eventually, he’d like to have a PhD and work for organizations like the WHO, Medecins Sans Frontieres, and UNICEF, as well as teach. Research Interests: biocultural, medical, and evolutionary anthropology; osteology; epidemiology and public health; population biology and genetics.

Anthropology En Pointe
Mike Barnes research adventure into the fascinating world of ballet. During preliminary research, conducting a loosely defined ethnography online using social media, blogs and other subject-relevant web sites. During this phase, welcome dancers and choreographers who are interested to help with research to do so online. Comparisons between ballet and other interests would be valuable.

Anthropology Major Fox
Anthropology Major Fox is a meme for Anthro freaks.

Anthropology @ UBC: comments on the study of human societies
Cultural anthropology is the study of human societies and cultures in all of their manifest forms and variations. In this introductory course we will have a chance to explore the diversity of anthropological study. This blog is designed to complement class lectures and tutorial discussions.

Anthropomics
Jon Marks: An evolutionary anthropologist, a student of human biocultural diversity, formerly a faux geneticist, now a faux historian. Anthropomics is a blog about evolution, anthropology, and science, inspired by the three Georges: Gaylord Simpson, Carlin, and S. Kaufman.

Anthroprobably
Anthroprobably is a multi-site network bringing you the latest anthropological news, media, blogs and resources. The network is moderated by Matthew Tuttle, an Anthropology M.A. graduate with a background in archaeology, cultural anthropology, preservation, and journalism.

Antropocoiso
Paulo Granjo: É um cidadão do mundo que nasceu português em 1963, é casado e tem uma filha. Antropólogo e investigador do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS), doutorou-se em 2001 e realiza pesquisas tanto em Portugal como em Moçambique. Mete o nariz em terrenos de estudo tão diversos como a indústria, as práticas curativas e mágicas, os processos de aprendizagem, as práticas políticas, as relações laborais ou o direito familiar.

Antropologia: una perspectiva multiple
Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Yucatán, Mexico: ¿Cual es el rol de la antropologia en el siglo XXI? Nuestra disciplina parece estar situada en una posicion privilegiada para el mundo actual. Puesto que nos ocupamos de conocer la vida cotidiana y las formas de ver el mundo de quienes habitan este planeta, tenemos las herramientas necesarias para analizar los rapidos cambios por los que nuestro mundo está atravesando, desde las nuevas formas de comunicacion instantanea hasta el calentamiento global y la predominacion de las corporaciones en la economia mundial.

Appalachian Anthropology
A discussion of public anthropology in Appalachia. “I’m a proud West Virginian who has spent many years traveling the globe only to discover how passionate I am about my home. I use anthropology to frame research around coal extraction in Appalachia: through studying political, economic, and historical factors, we can better understand the effects of the coal industry on the people and environment of Appalachia as well as how those people are standing up for themselves against major corporate and governmental power.”

Applied Anthropology News
A publication of the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Applying Anthro

ArchaeoBlog
Serving up old news since A.D. 2004

Archaeological Haecceities
Johan Normark’s neorealistic blog: Archaeology, the Maya, 2012, climate, travels, and more.

Archaeology Curated
There is somewhat of a divide between archaeologists who excavate the artifacts and the conservators and curators who preserve the artifacts. As an archaeologist, I am personally journeying towards an understanding of conservation and curation through classes and greater awareness of preservation issues. I will post information sharing the highlights of what I am learning, the museums and sites that I visit, and information about archaeological and historical sites where archaeologists, anthropologists, conservators and curators are working together. Whitney Rose Petrey is currently a graduate student in Maritime Studies at East Carolina University. See also her Martime Culture blog below.

Arctic Anthropology
Updates and News from Northern Anthropology of Circumpolar Regions. Several Arctic anthropologists, mostly based in Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland, have decided that now is the right time to create a platform that allows us to communicate our ideas beyond some office table or informal chats.

BANDIT – Biological ANthropology Developing Investigators Troop
Biological Anthropology Developing Investigators Troop (BANDIT), a community bringing together a troop of like-minded primates lucky enough to have a career studying other primates in their endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful. For those on the job market and the tenure track, in the lab and the field, from post-defense to pre-tenure, adjuncts, assistants, visitors, and academic hobos of all stripes. Julienne Rutherford is a biological anthropologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the College of Dentistry.

Cambio y Corto
Blog de JOSEP M. MIRÓ, antropólogo, emprendedor, educador, agitador y observador de buenas y malas prácticas sobre cooperación al desarrollo, emprendedores sociales, innovación y responsabilidad social.

CLOSER – Anthropology of Muslims in Europe
Martijn de Koning in 1997 graduated from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as an anthropologist. After several small jobs began in 1999 my work at the project Schoolcareersupport of the Nour mosque in Gouda and the social work organization Woonhuis. In that year began Ph.D project on the religious identity of young Moroccan-Dutch muslim boys and girls in Gouda. In 2002 joined the researchgroup Between secularization and religionization of prof. Droogers at the Vrije Universiteit and until January 2009 was working in Leiden at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM). Currently working in the Department of Islam and Arab Studies at the Faculty of Religious Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Connected in Cairo
Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Middle East. Featuring news and information about globalization and the modern Middle East, based on the ideas and concepts in the book Connected in Cairo. Mark Allen Peterson’s research interests are ethnography of communication, mass media, information technologies, nationalism, transnationalism and globalization, semiotics, drama and spectacle. Areas: Egypt, India, United States.

Cosmic Cultural Consciousness
Thoughts from the intersection of ideas. Mike Antares is pursuing degrees in astronomy and anthropology, and also has a strong interest in cognitive neuroscience. He’s a writer and photographer, and loves passionate intellectual pursuit and the journey towards wisdom.

Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative
Hosted by the Department of Anthropology, The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative is a platform for interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration in the domain of Cultural Heritage Informatics at Michigan State University. In addition, the initiative strives to equip students with the practical and analytical skills necessary to creatively apply information and communication technologies to cultural heritage materials, influence the current state of cultural heritage informatics, and become thought leaders for the future of cultural heritage informatics.

Culture and International Affairs
This is the Blog for William O. Beeman, Professor and Chair of Anthropology and specialist in Middle East Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul Minnesota, formerly of Brown University. It includes current publications on Middle Eastern affairs, especially Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf region; anthropology; linguistics; performance; opera; things Japanese and Central Asian.

Culture Matters
Current and former students and staff of the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, write about the emergent trends in anthropology. In particular interested in discussing the ways in which the methods and insights of anthropology are being ‘applied’ in various settings, both within and beyond the academy.

Cyber Anthropology
Anthropology of gaming, blogging, social networking, online communities and so much more! Diana Harrelson writes on cyber anthropology, human computer interaction, user experience design, gaming and various other topics.

decasia: critique of academic culture
Eli Thorkelson is a graduate student in cultural anthropology in Chicago. Works on anthropology of universities in France and the United States.

Digital Ethnography @ Kansas State University
A Kansas State University working group led by Dr. Michael Wesch dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography.

Dirt – a blog about archaeology
Terry Peterkin Brock is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Michigan State University, with a particular interest in Historical Archaeology, and is conducting research at Historic St. Mary’s City in Southern Maryland. Blogging is a way to engage the wider world in research, network with other archaeologists, and give a behind the scenes look at how archaeology, community engagement, and becoming a professional in the field is done.

Display Adaptability: Adapting to Change in the 21st Century
Kathleen E. Fuller is an expert in the study of human origins and adaptations. The purpose of this blog is to discuss in a more informal manner topics that are important to an individual’s health and success.

Dossier Global: Cultura, sociedad y medio ambiente

Doula Ambitions
Thoughts on Birth and Culture by a New Doula. Emily is a Doula and an aspiring Medical Anthropologist. The purpose of this blog is to share information discovered on pregnancy, childbirth, mothering, breastfeeding and so forth, on journey to becoming a doula.

ethnografix
Ryan Anderson is a graduate student in cultural anthropology, but “before that I owned an M6 and called myself a photographer. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. This site is about my various interests: anthropology, photography, politics, economics, and everything in between.” See also anthropologies project.

Ethnographer | Ecographer
Social Justice, Ecological Sustainability, Public Anthropology, Global Health. By Heather E. Young-Leslie, Ph.D.

Ethnography.com
A long-running and consistent group blog in ethnography and anthropology.

Ethnography Matters
Exploring what it means to be an ethnographer today. Four ethnographers “came together to start this blog because we believe that ethnographic research–with its focus on human experiences in context–is critical for countering the trend towards users as numbers, as digits, as data and as markets. In the push to scale technologies globally, technological talk often focuses on the production and consumption of technological goods–There are Users, Makers, and Artifacts–and very little in between. We believe in the in between.

Ethnosnacker
This site’s purpose is to cheerfully debate commercial ethnography/anthropology’s do’s and don’ts. Siamack Salari is a partner at Everyday Lives.

The Evolutionary Studies Consortium
The Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) Consortium is designed to facilitate the development and implementation of Evolutionary Studies Programs at colleges and universities across the United States. An Evolutionary Studies Program introduces students from all majors to evolutionary theory early in their academic careers, emphasizes human-related subjects in addition to biological, promotes the continuation of evolutionary training throughout the undergraduate education, and promotes faculty training and collaborative research related to evolution.

Fieldnotes & Footnotes
Bree Blakeman, PhD student of Anthropology in Australia. This site is primarily a documentation of the process of writing a dissertation–of the thoughts and musings one has along the way. It is a way to acknowledge and celebrate the social nature of knowledge production within the academy–and to make Indigenous issues and intercultural relations a part of public conversation.

FoodAnthropology
Blog of The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN), formerly known as the Council on Nutritional Anthropology (CNA), organized in 1974 in response to the increased interest in the interface between social sciences and human nutrition.

Forests and Oceans for the Future
Since 2001 the Forests and Oceans for the Future research group has been engaged is a series of collaborative research projects. Since 2007, one of our research objectives involved the development of indicators to assist in sustainable forest management. We focused on identifying aspects of the ‘traditional’ economy–harvesting, processing, cultural practices–that indicates a healthy local culture. Our underlying assumption is that well managed forests contribute to healthy local communities.

From the Annals of Anthroman
John L. Jackson, Jr. Anthropologist, academic and filmmaker born in Brooklyn, New York.

Golublog: An Anthropology Blog
Alex Golub, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai’i Manoa. BA in Anthropology from Reed College (1995) and MA (1997) and Ph.D. (2006) in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Dissertation, entitled “Making the Ipili Feasible: Imagining Global and Local Actors at the Porgera Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea,” examines the relationship between indigenous land owners and the world-class Porgera Gold mine. Second research project focuses on conceptions of achievement, teamwork, and self in World of Warcraft.

Gopk: State. Nationalism. Political Cultures.
Giovanni Picker, Visiting fellow at University of Bristol

Grant McCracken: This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics
Trained as an anthropologist (Ph.D. University of Chicago), Grant has studied American culture and business for 25 years. He has taught anthropology at the University of Cambridge, ethnography at MIT, and marketing at the Harvard Business School. He is a long time student of culture and commerce.

Greg Laden’s Blog
Culture as Science – Science as Culture. Greg Laden is a Biological Anthropologist who studies Human Behavioral Biology and Human Environment Interaction using, among other things, Archaeology as a tool, but with a strong background in North American Historical Archaeology, North American Prehistoric Archaeology in the Glaciated Zone (and thus with a fair amount of background in glacial geology) and an Africanist. Laden is a blogger and writer and independent scholar who occasionally teaches. Laden is a Harvard PhD in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology.

HawgBlawg
Broadcasts from NW Arkansas: Razorback Country. Ted Swedenburg is Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Middle East Report editorial committee member, and KXUA d.j.

Heather Pringle’s Blog
Heather Pringle is a Canadian science writer who specializes in archaeology and history. She writes for Science, National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, and Archaeology, where she is a contributing editor.

HipHop Anthropology & Everything Else Under the Sun
Wassup with Mosheh Adamu
aka: thaBFAP; BFAP thaAnthropologist
thaBFAP is an acronym for Tha Brotha From Anotha Planet. I’m an out the box brotha, unconventional in thinking, attitude and spirit. I am one of few African American Historical Archaeologists and even in this microcosmic universe, I may be the only one that truly represents HipHop through emceen’ and graffiti. I get on the mic as a public speaker and teacher of anthropology, history, culture and language. I tag walls through photography, graphic design, poetry, prose, essays, articles and books.

A Hot Cup of Joe
Archaeology, anthropology, science, and skepticism. Carl Feagans is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington’s anthropology program, BA in anthropology with a focus on archaeology. Now in the master’s program for archaeology and very seriously considering going on to a Ph.D. program. Among academic interests are the religious and cult beliefs of prehistoric peoples, particularly in the Near East around the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. Also fascinated with cognitive archaeology and the study of early information storage.

How do we see the world? Discourses of international development and globalization
My name is Catherine Blampied and I am a PhD student in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol in the UK. I’ve set up this site as a space to share information and reflect on some of my thoughts during the process of researching my PhD project. My project looks at public understandings of international development and globalization, especially those of youth in the UK.

How to be an anthropologist
Angela VandenBroek is an anthropologist, web designer, wife and future doctoral student. She is interested in American culture, the practice of identity, discourse, and power. She holds a B.S. in anthropology from Grand Valley State University and a M.A. in anthropology from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Ideas Bazaar
Ideas Bazaar is the personal website of Simon Roberts, a business anthropologist.

In Harmonium
Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist. An Anthropologist who teaches in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). Also a classically trained singer in the Ottawa Bach Choir, and “Anthropologists in [virtual] Residence” with Insignia Research. Currently affiliated with two research units at Carleton: the Centre for Indigenous Research on Culture, Language and Education (CIRCLE) and the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies.

International Cognition and Culture Institute
A blog by members of the International Cognition and Culture Institute

Interprete
Trained as an anthropologist, Gabriella (”Biella”) Coleman researches and teaches on the politics of free software, hackers, the law, and digital activism. Her first book, Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking is forthcoming with Princeton University Press and she is currently working on a new book on Anonymous and digital activism. She is an assistant professor in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU and will be joining the Art History and Communication Department at McGill University as the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy in January 2012.

Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist
Gabriele Marranci is an anthropologist by training, based at the National University of Singapore, with an honorary affiliation at Cardiff University’s Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, and has enjoyed exploring many topics concerning Muslims and Islam, such as arts, music, gender, ethnicity, education, political Islam and social issues as well as specific concepts like jihad, the ummah and the idea of justice. In recent years, expanded research interests to include youth culture and cognitive neuroscience and look forward to exploring these topics both within the contexts of Muslim communities and beyond them.

Keywords
The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman, an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures at National Dong Hwa University, where he teaches linguistic and visual anthropology. His research explores the relationship between language, ideology and political economy in Taiwan. He is a founding member of the group anthropology blog Savage Minds and a documentary filmmaker. His latest film is Please Don’t Beat Me, Sir!

Krazy Kioti: The Gene Anderson Webpage

Lawn Chair Anthropology
Biological anthropology, paeleontology, evolution and development. Zachary Cofran is a graduate student interested in evolutionary and developmental biology, as it relates to humans and our primate relatives.

Language Log
Language Log was started in the summer of 2003 by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum. Other more or less regular contributors include Arnold Zwicky, Ben Zimmer, Victor Mair, Bill Poser, Heidi Harley, Roger Shuy, Geoff Nunberg, Eric Bakovic, Sally Thomason, Barbara Partee, and John McWhorter.

Linguistic Anthropology Blog
Sponsored by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA). Linguistic Anthropology is the comparative study of the ways in which language shapes social life.

Loomnie: Africa, Economic Anthropology, Political Economy
Articles mostly about economic anthropology, finance, Africa, political economy, and related subjects. Olumide Abimbola has a BA in Communication from the University of Ibadan, and a Masters in Development Studies from Uppsala University. Abimbola recently defended an economic anthropology PhD dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Martin-Luther University, both in Halle/Saale, Germany. The dissertation is based on a one-year, multi-sited ethnographic study of the international trade in secondhand clothing. Abimbola teaches an economic anthropology course at the Martin-Luther University, Halle/Saale, Germany.

Making Anthropology Public: Everything Humanly Possible
Anthropology is a field that is simply not receiving enough publicily. The goal of this blog is to help people understand the importance and use of anthropology in a career, society, and lives of others. People do not realize anthropology can add a better understanding to relationships, why people do what they do, cultural respect, recognizing similarities with different people, medical identification, documentation, acute observation, and more. The world and history of the human race is all about ANTHROPOLOGY! Adrienne Elder (makinganthropologypublic)–B.A. in Anthropology and History from California State University of Fresno on May 2008. Original author and Blogsite designer of Making Anthropology Public. James Mullooly Ph.D. (theanthrogeek)–Professor of Anthropology at California State University of Fresno. The webmaster and creator of naming the Blog “Making Anthropolo Public”.

Maritime Culture
Maritime culture involves human activity in, on or around the water. Maritime culture existed from the days of early humans through today. This blog presents articles, book reviews, developments in this academic sub-field, and personal thoughts on maritime culture as well as a monthly news post on current events in maritime culture. Whitney Rose Petrey is a graduate student in Maritime Studies at East Carolina University. See also her blog at Archaeology Curated above.

Material World
Material World is an interactive, online hub for contemporary debates, discussion, thinking and research centred on material and visual culture. It is the brainchild of scholars working in the anthropology departments of University College London and New York University, but aims to create a new international community of academics, students, curators, artists and anyone else with particular interests in material and visual culture.

media/anthropology
The aim of this blog is to put out in the public domain materials already part of research activity under the broad theme of media anthropology. John Postill is an anthropologist specialising in the study of digital media. Postill holds a BA in anthropology from the University of Durham, in England, an MA in social anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and a PhD in social anthropology from University College London (UCL). Currently Postill is Senior Lecturer in Media at Sheffield Hallam University and a Fellow of the Digital Anthropology Programme at UCL.

Media and Social Change
This is the site of the EASA Media Anthropology Network research initiative Media and Social Change. The aim of this initiative is to bring together anthropologists and other social scientists interested in furthering this area of research and theorisation. Immediate goals are to bid for European research network funding and to publish an edited volume provisionally titled Theorising Media and Social Change. John Postill (Sheffield Hallam University); Elisenda Ardevol (Open University of Catalonia); Sirpa Tenhunen (University of Helsinki).

The Memory Bank
The two great memory banks are language and money. Exchange of meanings through language and of objects through money are now converging in a single network of communication, the internet. We must learn how to use this digital revolution to advance the human conversation about a better world. Our political task is to make a world society fit for all humanity.The site administrators are Keith Hart and Justin Shaffner.

The Mermaid’s Tale
A conversation about the nature of genetic causation in evolution, development and ecology. Includes discussions of the public perception of science and evolution and covers other subfields of biological anthropology, particularly paleoanthropology. Authored by three biological anthropologists, Ken Weiss, Anne Buchanan, and Holly Dunsworth.

Mick Morrison: Archaeology and heritage in Australia
Mick Morrison is an archaeologist in the Department of Archaeology at Flinders University, Adelaide. The purpose of this blog is to bring together professional activities and interests in pre- and post-contact Indigenous archaeology and cultural heritage management (CHM); new research, conferences and publications that have some relevance to those interested in archaeology and CHM in Australia; new tools, software applications, websites and methods that have some relevance to doing archaeology or CHM.

Middle Savagery
Colleen Morgan is an archaeology Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving her B.A. in Anthropology/Asian Studies in 2004 at the University of Texas, Colleen worked as a professional archaeologist. Since that time, she has worked in Turkey, Jordan, Qatar, Greece, Texas, Hawaii and California, excavating sites 100 years old and 9,000 years old and anything in-between. Her dissertation is based on building archaeological narratives with New Media, using digital photography, video, mobile and locative devices. She is deeply interested in excavation methodology, high falutin’ theory, interstitial spaces, skeuomorphs and good bourbon.

Motherlands – adventures in cultural parenting
An anthropological and literary resource on becoming a parent in the age of globalization. Susannah Kennedy is a Ph.D. in social anthropology – Motherlands is an ongoing collection of what has always fascinated me personally, as a mother, a journalist and a social anthropologist.

MSU Campus Archaeology Program Blog
MSU Campus Archaeology is a program that works to mitigate and protect the archaeological resources on Michigan State University’s beautiful and historic campus. The premier Land-Grant College, Michigan State University (MSU) has a cultural heritage that exists not only in rich traditions and academic values, but also underneath our feet, below the ground that we walk on every day.

The Naked Anthropologist
Dr Laura Agustín on Migration, Trafficking and Sex. Laura Agustín–The Naked Anthropologist–writes as a lifelong migrant and sometime worker in both nongovernmental and academic projects about sex, travel and work.

NPR 13.7: Cosmos and Culture
Group blog set at the intersection of science and culture where Barbara J. King now writes. King is Chancellor Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. With a long-standing research interest in primate behavior and human evolution, she has studied baboon foraging in Kenya and gorilla and bonobo communication at captive facilities in the United States. Recently, Barbara has taken up studies of animal emotion more broadly, including bison, elephants, domestic pets and primates.

Northwest Coast Archaeology
A site for occasional commentary on Northwest Coast Archaeology or for interesting news items. The goal is to encourage public knowledge about, and appreciation of, Northwest Coast Archaeology through examples of interesting finds and sites, or through commentaries on archaeology in the news or otherwise in the public domain. Authored by Quentin Mackie, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria.

Olorgesailie Field Blog
As paleoanthropologists, paleontologists and geologists, we can’t sit at a computer all the time and run experiments. We have to go to where the archeological sites and rock formations are. This is fieldwork, and for most of us, it’s what we love to do most. We are now posting dispatches for the 2011 summer field season. The dispatches show what we are doing and what we are finding as it happens. We hope to stimulate your interest in the prehistoric site of Olorgesailie and in paleoanthropology as a science.We also hope to give you an idea of what it is like to do scientific fieldwork. We hope that you enjoy this opportunity to ‘experience’ field research in East Africa.

Open Anthropology Cooperative
The Open Anthropology Cooperative (OAC) is open to all with an interest in anthropology. Read, share, debate, collaborate, make friends. Anthropology has a distinguished past, but it has an even greater future. We hope that professionals and students who are already committed to the discipline will find here like-minded anthropologists, as well as new tools, resources and opportunities for collaboration. But we also welcome anyone for whom our conversations are interesting. An engaged anthropology for the 21st century should be open to interdisciplinary collaboration. This depends on making full use of the emerging social and technical synthesis entailed in the digital revolution.

paleophile: fossils evolution education and dissertating
This blog is written by Caitlin Schrein, a doctoral candidate at Arizona State University and fellow of the Human Origins Program at the National Museum of Natural History. Caitlin researches Miocene ape evolution and the teaching and learning of human evolutionary biology in America’s classrooms.

parenthropology: Field notes on parenting, work, and anthropology
Anthropologically infused musings on why 2 jobs + 2 kids = 2 much… With screeds on academia / higher education, gender, politics, economics, and history. Not to mention occasional yuks. “Parenthropologist” is a cultural anthropologist, college professor, and parent. Through research, teaching, and blogging, bringing a bit of parenting into anthropology, and a bit of anthropology into parenting.

Patrick F. Clarkin: Biological anthropology, war & health, growth & nutrition
This site is mainly about biological anthropology. Other specific topics: evolution, war, health, nutrition, and the Hmong/Southeast Asian refugee diaspora. Patrick Clarkin is a biological anthropologist and associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Research integrates the impact of social and evolutionary forces on growth, nutrition, and health. In particular, focused on the long-term impact of war, refugee experiences, and poverty on growth and health of Southeast Asians (Hmong, Lao, Khmer).

Photoethnography.com Blog
Notes on photoethnography, ethnographic filmmaking, fieldwork in Japan, classic cameras, digital photography, and other topics concerning visual anthropology.

Philbu’s Blog
This is Philipp Budka, a social and cultural anthropologist from Vienna, blogging about the anthropology of media and technology, Indigenous internet practices and media, technology enhanced learning and his ethnographic fieldwork.

Processing Culture
Jessica Mason is a graduate student in cultural anthropology, currently working on a dissertation about reproductive politics in contemporary Russia. This blog contains musings, riffs, and impromptu essays from an anthropological perspective.

Professione Antropologo
L’antropologia è un mestiere al servizio dell’innovazione. Sono presidente e socio fondatore dell’associazione di ricerca e divulgazione antropologica Antrocom Onlus. Mi sono laureato in Scienze Biologiche a indirizzo antropologico, ho scritto per diverse testate, sono co-editor della rivista Antrocom e nel comitato scientifico di Diritto Moderno e Gorgòn Magazine. Mi occupo di divulgazione dell’antropologia e delle sue potenzialità per le aziende e le istituzioni.

Publishing Archaeology
This blog contains information and opinions on professional publishing issues in archaeology. Especially concerned with quality control, Open Access, and communication with other disciplines. Michael E. Smith is an archaeologist who works on Aztec sites, with an interest in comparative research on cities, households, empires, and city-states. Views archaeology as a Comparative Historical Social Science.

Puella Ludens
Puella Ludens is written by Linda Huber. The phrase means “playing girl” in Latin, and is derived from Huizinga’s theory of the “homo ludens,” or playing man. I believe that the spirit of play is essential to humanity–that this “purposeless” activity is actually the heart of human “progress”, and the heart of what is great about being human. This site is dedicated to an anthropological exploration of homo ludens and his progress.

Recycled Minds
A collaborative project that aims to share the diverse perspectives and work of our contributors. We’re bloggers, scholars, activists, artists, writers, and friends seeking to create a space for a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the world around us. We hope our efforts here can contribute to meaningful conversation and contemplation, and help to spur ourselves and others toward creating positive change in our communities and around the world.

The Reflexive Anthropologist
Siomonn Pulla: This blog gives me a chance to share some of my creative musings. Its a blend of fact and fiction. Today I work as a professional anthropologist. I’m an Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. I teach university courses in the fields of Indigenous issues, applied and participatory anthropology, and Canadian studies. My various academic projects include Metis issues in Canada, historical anthropology and Indigenous land-use practices, and collaborative research methods.

Review of the Indigenous Caribbean
Aim is to provide a wide variety of news, views, and announcements concerning indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, past and present, and the wider indigenous world. In some cases touches on broader political, economic, and cultural issues of regional and international import as they may affect local indigenous communities in the Caribbean. Began in 2008 as a collaborative, multi-author blog; the initial contributors were Jorge Baracutei Estevez (Taino, Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian), David Campos (Taino), Carrie Medina (Taino), K.M. Josephs (Kalinago, linguist), Rixturey (Taino, artist), and Maximilian Forte (anthropologist). previously we were joined by Lynne Guitar (Dominican Republic) and Tracy Assing (Carib, Trinidadian). The site stemmed from both the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink (CAC), and the Indigenous Caribbean Network.

Sara Perry: The Archaeological Eye
Dr. Sara Perry recently completed a doctorate in archaeology at the University of Southampton under the supervision of Prof Stephanie Moser.

Shake Well Before Using
Shake Well Before Using is part of the Slow Blog Movement. Daniel A Segal teaches world history and cultural-social anthropology at Pitzer College, and is also the Director of the Munroe Center for Social Inquiry.

Shifting Landscapes: Notes From the Field
Pablo Figueroa is a Tokyo-based cultural anthropologist currently conducting research on risk communication surrounding the Fukushima nuclear disaster. He is also a coordinator of the Contemporary Japanese Studies Program at the School of Social Sciences, Waseda University.

Shreds and Patches
Jason Baird Jackson: I am an ethnographer whose work bridges the fields of folklore, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology and American Studies. I have collaborated with Native American communities in Oklahoma since 1993, when I began a lifelong personal and research relationship with the Euchee/Yuchi people. My studies concern, most centrally, the nature of customary arts, practices and beliefs and the role that these play in social life. In addition to the ethnography and ethnology of Eastern North America, I am increasingly also pursuing projects exploring emerging issues (often quite contested) in the areas of intellectual property, cultural property and heritage policy. Lastly, most of my career has been spent working as a curator in museum contexts and I remain deeply engaged with research in, and teaching about, museums, especially museums of art and ethnography.

Society for Visual Anthropology
Blog for The Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA), a section of the American Anthropological Association. We promote the study of visual representation and media. Both research methods and teaching strategies fall within the scope of the society. SVA members are involved in all aspects of production, dissemination, and analysis of visual forms. Works in film, video, photography, and computer-based multimedia explore signification, perception, and communication-in-context, as well as a multitude of other anthropological and ethnographic themes.

Space and Politics
Ensayos sobre el pulso espacial de la política – Essays on the spatial pulse of politics. The blog draws from critical social theory and anthropological theory to analyze contemporary political events. Gastón Gordillo is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.

Struggle Forever! A Guide to Utopia
This blog is an intervention. It’s intention is to make a difference in the way we engage with the myriad entities (human and non-human) with whom we are intertwined. It takes the view that existence is a perpetual process of “becoming with” – a process of building relationships and allowing oneself to be altered and affected as much as one alters and affects others. The name “Struggle Forever” comes from Kim Stanley Robinson’s utopian novel Pacific Edge – suggesting that utopia is not an end toward which we can aim, but is this process itself. Everything we do is situated within a social/ecological context, and everything we do makes a difference – the question is, what kind of difference are we making? I call for a more conscious and conscientious practice that aims to make the world better rather than replicating the existing patterns of injustice and oppression. The world will never be perfect – it’s much too dynamic for that – but through this continual struggle we might gradually push back oppression and injustice inch-by-inch, and, to borrow another Robinson quote, “together we may crab sideways toward the good.” Jeremy Trombley is a PhD student at the University of Maryland studying environmental anthropology.

The Subversive Archaeologist
A counterpoint to archaeological myth-making–every effort is made to keep the invective to a dull roar, but to be on the safe side it might be best to plug your ears. Rob Gargett’s achievements include a BA in Archaeology (Simon Fraser University, 1987), “Grave Shortcomings: The Evidence for Neandertal Burial” (Current Anthropology, 1989), a Ph.D. in Anthropology (University of California at Berkeley, 1994), a lectureship in Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology at the University of New England, NSW, Australia, from 1996 to 1999, “Middle Palaeolithic Burial is Not a Dead Issue: The View from Qafzeh, Saint-Césaire, Kebara, Amud, and Dederiyeh” (Journal of Human Evolution, 1999), and, in aggregate, 27 months of field experience in southern central British Columbia (Salishan), Israel (Middle Palaeolithic), France (Mesolithic), Australia, California’s Coast Range, its Central Valley and Great Basin desert regions.

Superculture
These pages are all about the murky crossroads of marketing, development, intellectual property and advocacy. Blog by Boris Popović: “I look for stories of unusual suspects, i.e. poor people, earning income with specialty products, heritage, traditional knowledge, ideas, uniqueness & similar. Stuff often referred to as intangibles…”

The Superorganic
This blog is dedicated to Applied Anthropology and the anthropological exploration of the human species and its environment. As Alfred Louis Kroeber observed: “Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the scientific of the humanities.” Our goal is to the describe and understand the evolution and dynamics of humanity and its superorganic manifestations through the anthropological lens and how this understanding can be used to improve the quality of human life. Barry R. Bainton, Ph.D. is a professional applied anthropologist who applies a holistic perspective to the art and science of business and life coaching.

SydneyYeager
I am a cultural anthropologist in my 2nd year of the SMU (Southern Methodist University) PhD program. I am interested in both medical anthropology and the anthropology of religion. In particular, I plan to research healers in Ireland who employ traditional, spiritual healing practices. I am interested in healing, spirituality, identity, consciousness, the processes of acculturation, education, and cultural change.

Tabsir – Insight on Islam and the Middle East
We are scholars concerned about stereotypes, misinformation and propaganda spread in the media and academic forums on Islam and the Middle East. We are committed to fair, open-ended scholarly assessment of the current political issues of terrorism, gender inequality and intolerance. We encourage informed debate rather than partisan posturing on all issues. We believe in active involvement as public intellectuals communicating the best of available research.

Teaching Anthropology
A discussion forum run by a seasoned Community College Instructor for those who want to share the pluses, minuses, rants, and fist bumps that come from teaching Anthropology at the undergraduate level. Gather up your pigs, yams, and banana leaf bundles and join the fun. “Pamthropologist” has a Ph.D. in Anthropology with a specialization in Africa. She has taught at a variety of educational institutions but since 1991, has taught full time at a Community College on the outskirts of Houston, teaching a diverse student population many of whom are first generation college-goers.

TheAnthroGeek: The Study of Humanity’s Geekiest Blog
This blog addresses matters of Anthropology, Technology, Productivity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship , Induction and anything else involving the study of humanity broadly conceived. James Mullooly has a PhD from Columbia University’s Applied Anthropology Program and “does Anthropology” as a professor in Fresno, US.

Then Dig
Then Dig is a group blog that centers on the archaeological short-form. Conceived after a popular blog carnival leading up to the Blogging Archaeology session at the 76th meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Then Dig intends to bring the best of archaeological blogging together in one place. Then Dig is hosted by the Archaeological Research Facility at the University of California, Berkeley.

Torso and Oblong
Dalton Luther is father of two small children and community college anthropology professor in NY. This blog serves as a venue for informal writing and thinking through issues. Often inspired by my experience as a clueless parent and equally clueless teacher, these posts are a way to explore the intersection of anthropology and life as a middle-class American.

trinketization: rumour-mongering, scribbled exotica, bad theory
Professor and Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College. Author of a number of books including The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation (1996 Zed); Critique of Exotica: Music, Politics and the Culture Industry (2000 Pluto Press); Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies (2004 Pluto), and co-authored with Virinder Kalra and Raminder Kaur: Diaspora and Hybridity (2005 Sage).

Tropismes
Musings on Anthropology, Culture, Politics, Writing, Music, and on being a Palestinian in London, after 21 years in Montréal.

UK Visual Anthropology: Audio-Visual Interventions @ The University of Kent
We are staff, students and friends of the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent. We use this blog to develop our social media abilities and show you some of our work and what is going on in our school. We also like to share and comment on stuff that we find interesting within the wide remit of visual anthropology, particularly as it relates to our own interests. We are enthusiastic about a public and engaged anthropology and passionate of the importance of feedback in creating a genuine ‘shared anthropology’.

Van Arsdale Biological Anthropology Lab
Human Evolution, Biological Anthropology, and Everyday Life. Adam Van Arsdale is a biological anthropologist with a specialization in paleoanthropology. Research focuses on the pattern of evolutionary change in humans over the past two million years, with an emphasis on the early evolution and dispersal of our genus, Homo. Work spans a number of areas including comparative anatomy, genetics and demography.

Visual Anthropology of Japan
A place where visual-anthro-blogger students can hunt and gather… My students write entries every week for their visual anthropology photo-journal blogs. See how they describe and visualize Japanese culture. I provide visual anthropology resources and experiment with the visual representation of Japan. Comments and questions–for students and myself–are especially solicited.

What Makes Us Human
Anthropology used to be easy to define: it was the study of exotic people somewhere else. But from its beginnings, anthropology has been less a way to describe varieties of human beings and more a way to answer question about the state of human being. Anthropologists ask the question, “What makes us human?” and seek our answers in studies that insist on recognizing all the many ways there are and have been of being human. Rosemary Joyce is a professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley and an archeologist who has conducted fieldwork in Honduras since 1977. Her research interests include ceramic analysis, household archaeology, and sex, gender and the body, interests unified under the heading of social archaeology. See also Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives.

Whitewashed Tomb: A view of archaeology from the inside
Whitewashed Tomb is the blog of Dr. Richard Rothaus, an archaeologist and historian with Trefoil. Matthew 23:27: “You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean.” The public image of archaeology sometimes bears little resemblance to the reality of archaeology. Whitewashed Tomb invites you to check in on some real day-to-day archaeology. After all, dead men and unclean things are interesting too.

Wide Urban World
“Wide Urban World” is a blog about cities as viewed from a broad historical and comparative perspective. As Winston Churchill said, “The farther back we look, the farther ahead we can see.” A blog by Michael E. Smith (see Publishing Archaeology above).

The Wild Anthropologist’s Blog
Corbett is an anthropology student at Northern Arizona University and started this page as a means of learning about and getting involved with the online anthropology community. Posts about various themes regarding field of study, including research, conferences, difficulties, and other more general thoughts.

Xirdalium
Xirdalium is the second instance of my weblog. Its first incarnation was started in 2001. By profession I am an anthropologist, mainly focussing upon technology, computer and Internet technology, gaming culture, and the like. An important focus of mine are the connections between contemporary ‘cyberculture’ (whatever that is), cybernetics and cyberpunk. Accordingly xirdalium carries a somewhat weird stack of topics, me thinks.

You Evolving
Science, Adventure, Philosophy, Personal Evolution

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