The Chemical Refrain: An #AmAnth2016 Panel Review

The Chemical Refrain: An #AmAnth2016 Panel Review

The Chemical RefrainChair: Eben Kirksey (University of New South Wales). Presenters: Nicholas Shapiro (Chemical Heritage Foundation), Jason Pine (Purchase Colle... More

Writing/Power/Story: Why and How to Do Ethnography of Nonhuman Beings and Things

Writing/Power/Story: Why and How to Do Ethnography of Nonhuman Beings and Things

Why study nonhuman beings and things? For physical anthropologists, there is no doubt that studying nonhuman things is an essential route to making sense of the... More

Entangled Finance, Karen Ho, and a Genuinely Free Lunch

Entangled Finance, Karen Ho, and a Genuinely Free Lunch

It might be tempting, especially for an anthropologist who thinks a lot about finance, to frame the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association a... More

Rituals of Mourning in the Public Sphere: A #AAA2012 Panel Review

Rituals of Mourning in the Public Sphere: A #AAA2012 Panel Review

How do various emotional responses emerge out of rituals of public mourning? This was the question examined in various contexts by the panel “Mass Mourning: Obj... More

How to Research Affect Ethnographically: A #AAA2012 Panel Review

How to Research Affect Ethnographically: A #AAA2012 Panel Review

How are anthropologists and other ethnographers to study the seemingly ephemeral and slippery category of affect? This was the question taken up by the three pr... More

Animacy: A #AAA2012 Panel Review

Animacy: A #AAA2012 Panel Review

Animacy Panelists: Allen Feldman; Anand Pandian; Kathleen Stewart; Hugh Raffles Discussant: Timothy Choy To Timothy Choy’s thinking, describing animacy is alway... More

Walking Around in Lauren Berlant's Elliptical Life: A Review of Culture at Large 2012

Walking Around in Lauren Berlant's Elliptical Life: A Review of Culture at Large 2012

On Biopolitics and the Attachment to Life Organizers: Eleana Kim (University of California, Irvine) and Zeynep Gürsel (Macalester College) Featured Guest: Laure... More

Gleanings from a Para-Site: The Multispecies Salon II

Gleanings from a Para-Site: The Multispecies Salon II

Visitors to The Multispecies Salon II at the 2008 meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in San Francisco could hear the twitter of live coc... More