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Anthropology Blogs 2017 (Archive)

Anthropology blogs 2017 were a great way to keep up with how Anthropology Matters, the theme of the 2017 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. On the theme of anthropology blogs and anthropology matters, see the third edition of Anthropology Matters. Also check out the 2017 interview with author Shirley Fedorak on Teaching Culture, one of our great anthropology blogs.

Anthropology blogs are an ideal way to understand What is Anthropology? Anthropology blogs also supplement Introduction to Anthropology courses.

The anthropology blogs included here published in 2017. For a great live-feed experience, bookmark the Anthropology Newspaper from antropologi.info.

For Anthropology Blogs from five previous years:

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DANG, the Digital Anthropology Group

AAA – American Anthropological Association Blog

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

Aidnography: Reflections on development, communication & (social) media

Eclectic mix of reflections on international development, anthropology blogs and academic research.

Alberto Acerbi – Cognitive/Evolutionary Anthropology

Alberto Acerbi is a cognitive/evolutionary anthropologist with a particular interest in computational science.

Alison in Cambodia

A blog about archaeology and related issues in Cambodia. Alison Carter is an archaeologist who has worked in Cambodia for over 10 years. Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

All Tomorrow’s Cultures

Occasional posts on anthropologically interesting science fiction, anthropological futures and my own future as an anthropologist.

Allegra: A Virtual Laboratory of Legal Anthropology

The site pushes the boundaries of scholarly representations of ‘the law’ in the broadest sense. In addition to viewing the law as a site of normative engagement, we examine its knowledge pratices, authority claims, notions of subjectivity and agency.

Alma Gottlieb

Alma Gottlieb is a cultural anthropologist, researcher, author, and teacher impassioned by understanding all things human. Author of many books, her World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Eight Societies is now in its eighth edition.

Andy White – Anthropology

Andy White is an anthropological archaeologist with interests in hunter-gatherers, lithic technology, human evolution, and complex systems theory.

Animal Archaeology

All things archaeology, but mostly dead animals. Alex Fitzpatrick is a zooarchaeologist and PhD student at the University of Bradford in England.

Anthrobod – Anthropology & the Body

This blog is concerned with topics related to anthropology and the body. Max Schnepf documents experiences and observations during and after ethnographic research on practices of styling and modifying bodies in a Berlin hairdressing salon.

anthro{dendum}

anthro{dendum} is a blog about sociocultural anthropology. Formerly known as Savage Minds, contributors have been blogging since 2005. All posts from before November 28, 2017 are archived at the previous site.

Anthroecology

A blog about anthropology, ecology, fieldwork, and the future of the planet. By anthropologist Helga Vierich.

Anthro Everywhere!

A collection of writings that speak to the anthropological perspective focusing on examples of public issues that we can better understand if we apply an anthropological lens, what anthropologists can bring to a workplace, and resources for teaching anthropology in and outside of the anthropology classroom… and everywhere else.

Anthrolactology: Anthropology + Lactation + Breast Feeding + Human Milk

This blog features musings on breastfeeding at the intersection of biology and culture by Aunchalee Palmquist, EA Quinn, and Cecilia Tomori. The blog co-authors are the editors of Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches.

Anthropod – What a cultural anthropologist thinks about

Anthropod is a blog documenting how a cultural anthropologist thinks about research, teaching, and the ways that we live in and shape the world around us. By Lorena Gibson, an anthropologist and musician based in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Anthropolitan

Anthropolitan Online: The student-run blog of UCL Anthropology’s biannual departmental magazine.

Anthropoliteia – critical perspectives on police, security, crime, law & punishment

Anthropology blogs about police, policing and security from an anthropological perspective. Focuses on policing as a useful nexus for exploring questions in both political anthropology and the anthropology of morality.

Anthropological Observations on economics, politics, & daily life

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

Anthropologist on the Street

Anthropologist on the Street (AOTS) goes behind today’s controversies, debates, and trending issues to examine the hidden cultural forces at play. Each week, Dr. Carie Little Hersh interviews a different anthropologist or cultural expert to unveil what doesn’t get reported in the headlines: the underlying values, conversations, and practices of everyday life.

Anthropologizing – Amy L. Santee

Anthropologizing features a mixed-bag of posts on applied social research, business anthropology, design and user experience research, social observations, and other topics by Portland-based anthropologist and design researcher Amy L. Santee.

Anthropology 365

Joined the anthropology blogs in 2017: Themes of cultural reproduction, hegemony, science studies, primatology, knowledge production.

Anthropology As…. Life, the Universe, and Anthropology

Sarah Shulist & Katie Biittner aim to demonstrate anthropology as a force in everyday life, and to unabashedly and unashamedly show that anthropology IS awesome.

Anthropology Blog Network

A collection of anthropology blogs hosted at the University of Alabama College of Arts & Sciences.

Anthropology of Everyday Life

Meredith Small is an anthropologist at Cornell University and the author of Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent.

Anthropology Life: Where History & Culture Meet

Blog by Melissa Tolios to share enthusiasm for anthropology with the general public, and to encourage discussion and understanding of important cultural and historical topics.

Anthropology in Practice – Krystal D’Costa

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. Invites everyone to consider and discuss the world in terms of ethnography and history. (See this 2017 plug for anthropology blogs by anthro everywhere!)

Anthropology.net – Beyond bones & stones

Anthropology.net’s mission is to create a cohesive online community of individuals interested in anthropology. To promote and facilitate discussion, review research, extend stewardship of resources, and disseminate knowledge.

Anthropology of Smart Phones & Smart Ageing (ASSA)

This five-year project at UCL Anthropology employs a team of ten anthropologists who work on a collaborative and comparative project based on simultaneous 16 month ethnographies. This project investigates fundamental changes in people’s relationship to age and health associated with the global rise of the smartphone.

anthropologyworks

This blog (2009-2018) was 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. Its mission was 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.

Anthropomics – Evolution, Anthropology, and Science

Jon Marks: Formerly a faux geneticist, now a faux historian, all the while an evolutionary anthropologist. Anthropomics is inspired by the three Georges: Gaylord Simpson, Carlin, and S. Kaufman. Note: For older posts see this Anthropomics.

The Anthropo.scene: Making up the ‘world’ with what we have on hand

Jeremy Schmidt is a Banting Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. Research expertise supports policy change and public awareness on issues of justice and water rights.

AnthroPunk

AnthroPunk at Medium blog examines anthropological human and human systems issues as they relate to burgeoning or established algorithm, automation, and artificial intelligence technologies in the context of contemporary life.

antropologi.info

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

Antropologia 2.0 – Your website of applied anthropology

We believe in the usefulness of an anthropology upgraded to the 21st century. An anthropology that is applied and committed to social reality. And that is capable of assuming and responding to the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Antropología Industrial

Este sitio trata de la utilización del análisis antropológico y etnográfico como técnica de conocimiento y gestión empresarial, asociada a una concepción estratégica, complementaria y simbiótica con el marketing.

Antropologia: una perspectiva multiple, por Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, antropologa

¿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 comunicación instantanea hasta el calentamiento global y la predominacion de las corporaciones en la economia mundial.

El Antropólogo Perplejo

An anthropologist without concern is not an anthropologist at all. José Mansilla: Doctorando dentro del Programa de Procesos de Control Social: Trabajo, Exclusiones y Violencia con una Tesis sobre migración y redes de solidaridad en Poble Nou, Barcelona.

El Antropólogo Principiante

En este blog encontrarás temas relacionados con la antropología y mi experiencia como estudiante en la Uned.

The Anxious Anthropologist: Culture, Health, & Everyday Life

The Anxious Anthropologist notices the minutiae of everyday life.I have an inquiring, intellectual mind and want to explore the itsy bitsiness of everyday life.

ArchaeoBlog

Serving up old news (i.e., archaeology) since A.D. 2004!

Archaeogaming – Exploring the archaeology of (and in) video games

Archaeogaming is a blog dedicated to the discussion of the archaeology both of and in video games (console, computer, mobile).

Archaeological Haecceities

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

Archaeology and Material Culture – The Material World

Paul Mullins is a historical archaeologist who studies consumer culture in the last half-millennium. This includes research on the intersection of material consumption and the color line; race and urban renewal; the emergence of consumer society in northern Europe; Victorian decorative material culture; and the relationship between popular culture and materiality in the contemporary world.

Archaeology Review (previously, “A Hot Cup of Joe”)

Carl Feagans is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington’s anthropology 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 early information storage.

ArcheoThoughts – Andre Costopoulos, University of Alberta

Reflections on archaeology in general, with an emphasis on academic publishing, evolutionary theory, and claims of surprisingly early sites in any region.

Arctic Anthropology

Updates and news from Northern Anthropology of Circumpolar Regions. Several Arctic anthropologists, mostly based in Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland, have created a platform that allows us to communicate our ideas.

The Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP)

ASAP promotes the anthropological study of policy, including its making, workings, and effects, and seeks to advance the contributions of the anthropology of policy to theory and method in anthropology, as well as to research in public policy.

Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa / New Zealand

ASAA/NZ is a vibrant community of anthropologists who are from, work in, or are interested in issues related to Aotearoa/New Zealand and the wider Asia-Pacific region.

The Bioarchaeology of Childhood

Siân Halcrow is a bioarchaeologist with a research interest in all things to do with infants and children. Research addresses central archaeological questions of the intensification of agriculture and human responses to this seminal time in prehistory, with regional interests in prehistoric Southeast Asia and South America.

Biological anthropology, war & health, growth & nutrition – Patrick F. Clarkin, Ph.D.

Mostly about biological anthropology. Other topics: evolution, war, conflict and cooperation, health, nutrition, and the Hmong/Southeast Asian refugee diaspora. Patrick Clarkin is a biological anthropologist and associate professor at U.Massachusetts-Boston.

Boas Network – Broadening of Anthropology Spectrum

We are an information and entertainment forum providing the public a direct link to connect and enter the world of anthropology in an exciting and accessible way. For anthropologists, this is the place to showcase and promote your videos, knowledge and research.

Bone Broke – Archaeology, Biological Anthropology & Grad School

Posts on Archaeology, Osteology & Biological Anthropology by Jess Beck

Brave New Words by Dr. Piers Kelly

On the trail of linguistic creativity in Asia and Australia. Dr. Piers Kelly is a linguistic anthropologist at the School of Language Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Busting Myths About Human Nature

Agustín Fuentes, trained in Zoology and Anthropology, is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. His research delves into the how and why of being human. Ranging from chasing monkeys in the jungles and cities of Asia, to exploring the lives of our evolutionary ancestors, to examining what people actually do across the globe, Professor Fuentes is interested in both the big questions and the small details of what makes humans and our closest relatives tick.

CaMP Anthropology–Communication, Media, Performance

CaMP Anthropology feature posts, discussions, and links at the intersections of communication, media, and performance. Based in the Indiana University’s Anthropology Department, we welcome submissions exploring theory, scholarship, application, and methodology in these emerging fields.

Carlos García Mora, Etnólogo

Catálogo y consulta de textos personales. Etnólogo mexicano del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

Citizen Sociolinguistics

A blog by Betsy Rymes, Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Blog aims to become a place for sharing everyday encounters with language and engaging in dialog about different ways of speaking and attitudes about them–that is, a place for Citizen Sociolinguistics.

The City as a River – An anthropologist’s take on urban India

Ian M. Cook is an urban anthropologist pursuing a PhD at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University.

C L O S E R: Anthropology of Muslims in Europe

Martijn de Koning currently works 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.

Context and Variation

Dr. Kate Clancy is an Associate 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.

Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

Hosted by the Department of Anthropology, The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative is a platform for interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration at Michigan State University. Strives to equip students with the practical and analytical skills necessary to creatively apply information and communication technologies to cultural heritage materials.

Culture and Capitalism – A Sussex Anthropology Blog

This blog was created by students and faculty of the MA in the Social Anthropology of the Global Economy (SAGE) at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK.

Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry is an international and interdisciplinary forum for the publication of work in three interrelated fields: medical and psychiatric anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and related cross-societal and clinical epidemiological studies.

CultureBy – Grant McCracken

At the intersection of Anthropology and Economics. Trained as an anthropologist, 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.

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 works on anthropology of universities in France and the United States.

Decolonize All The Things

I’m a bio-cultural anthropologist and sociologist, currently a Physical Anthropology PhD student. This blog documents my journey through constant decolonization and depatriarchalization.

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.

Donna Lanclos – The Anthropologist in the Stacks

Donna Lanclos is an anthropologist and a folklorist who has been working in academic libraries starting in 2009. She thinks, writes, and talks about the nature of information, digital and physical places, and higher education generally.

Doug’s Archaeology: Investigating the Profession & Research

Doug Rocks-Macqueen: This is my blog were I focus mainly on the Profession of Archaeology e.g. pay, working conditions, career prospects, etc. Though I do on occasion throw in some other topics and some bits on Open Access.

Dylan Kerrigan OpEds

Dylan Kerrigan is a lecturer and researcher in Cultural Anthropology, Political Sociology, and Criminology at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus. His teaching and research looks at the world from a Caribbean centre because the way power is structured in the modern world most people do not have a good grasp of the importance of the Caribbean, both in the history and future of the world.

Elfshot – Sticks & Stones, Understanding the archaeological record

Tim Rast is a Canadian archaeologist and a flintknapper who specializes in artifact reproductions and knapped jewelry based on artifacts found across the Arctic and Subarctic, with an emphasis on Newfoundland and Labrador.

Engagement – Blog of the Anthropology & Environment Society

Engagement features first-hand accounts by anthropologists and other social scientists broadly concerned with the cause of social and ecological justice. The blog aims to bring an anthropological approach to understanding the pressing environmental issues of our time, targeting a broad audience of scholars, educators, artists, and advocates.

Entomophagy Anthropology – Julie Lesnik

Julie Lesnik received her PhD studying the role of termites in the diet of fossil hominins and has since started exploring insects as food more broadly.

EPIC – Advancing the Value of Ethnography in Industry

EPIC is dedicated to providing practitioners, businesses, and partner organizations with access to the best practical ethnographic expertise from around the world.

Eriksen’s Blog

Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s blog is a companion to his Engaging with the world website. Eriksen is the author of Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change.

Ethnographer | Ecographer

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

Ethnography.com

We seek to change the way the world thinks about the Social Sciences in general and ethnography in particular. We believe that telling good stories as social commentary is at the heart of what social science should do. We also think that social sciences don’t always do this, which is why we need this blog.

Evolutionary Anthropology – E.O. Smith

Evolution is not a theory, it is a fact, and as such provides the most powerful tool to explain what goes on around us.

The Evolutionary Studies Consortium

The Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) Consortium is designed to facilitate the development and implementation of Evolutionary Studies Programs. An Evolutionary Studies Program introduces students from all majors to evolutionary theory early in their academic careers.

The Familiar Strange: A blog. A podcast. A social fact.

We want to familiarise you with the strange, after estranging you with the familiar. This is an anthropology social engagement project.

Fieldsights

The Fieldsights section of the Cultural Anthropology website was launched in 2012 and includes a number of content streams that, while not peer-reviewed, have extended the scope and reach of the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s (SCA) publishing program.

Filterrauschen

A blog about music and anthropology, at the moment mainly in German, with translation in process. How to do music, mediumship, infogenetic linkages, digitalization, constructivism music.

Financial Times – Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett is markets and finance commentator and an assistant editor of the Financial Times. Tett earned a PhD in social anthropology at Clare College, Cambridge based on field research in Tajikistan in the former Soviet Union.

Focaal Blog: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology

FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project

Jill D. Pruetz is the principal investigator of the Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project, the longest-running research study of its kind in Senegal, West Africa.

Food Anthropology

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.

The Geek Anthropologist

The Geek Anthropologist is a blog where geek culture and all things geek are analysed through the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. We write about the intersections between social science, cultural analysis and practice of anthropology with geek culture, whether they be embodied, literary, cinematic or cybernetic.

German Dziebel, Anthropogenesis

A Uniquely Anthropological Approach to Human Origins and Dispersals. German Dziebel is an anthropologist trained in the Russian and American schools.

Gina Athena Ulysse on the Huffington Post

Gina Athena Ulysse is an anthropologist, a poet, performance artist and multi-media artist. She is a professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Born in Haiti, she has lived in the northeast of United States since her family migrated eons ago.

The Global Social Media Impact Study Blog

The Global Social Media Impact Study had nine anthropologists inserted into fieldsites around the world conducting long-term ethnographic fieldwork on how social media is affecting the lives of ordinary people. The blog was for researchers to share some of the exciting experiences of anthropological fieldwork with a wider audience. The final post was in 2017.

Glossographia – Anthropology, linguistics, & prehistory

Dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of language from a social scientific perspective. Stephen Chrisomalis is a linguistic anthropologist and cognitive anthropologist working at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. At the intersection of linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, cognitive science, and evolution, with particular foci on epigraphy, literacy studies, writing systems, numeration, and the history of science and mathematics.

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 an Africanist.

Guava Anthropology – Taiwanese Anthropologists

GUAVA anthropology covers things that are Grotesque, Unabashed, Apostate, Virid, and Auspicious about anthropology!

HawgBlawg – Broadcasts from NW Arkansas: Razorback Country

Ted Swedenburg is Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas. Author of Memories of Revolt: The 1936-39 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. Co-editor of Palestine, Israel and the Politics of Popular Culture and of Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity.

How to be an Anthropologist

Being an anthropologist today is not what you might expect. Building on a legacy of reflection and critical thought, we thrive in the complex and the particular. As an anthropologist, I aim to align myself with web developers to flesh out our common interests and anxieties to enrich both anthropological and technical knowledge.

The Human Economy Blog – Bringing people back into economics

The Human Economy Program was created in 2011 and is located at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. It is designed to bring back human concerns into economic studies and brings together researchers from around the world with experience in diverse disciplines.

The Human Evolution Blog

Professor Nathan H. Lents and his students discuss human origins. Lents is a Professor of Molecular Biology at John Jay College of The City University of New York and author of Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes.

The Human Family – Kinship, social organization, & the study thereof

In exchange for your patience in letting me learn how to blog I will teach you something about kinship (and social organization, too!)

International Cognition and Culture Institute

The website of the International Cognition & Culture Institute has, as permanent features, a blog section meant to stimulate and a news section meant to inform. We also organize online workshops, book-clubs, and other events.

ISS Archaeology: Boldly Going Where No Archaeologists Have Gone Before

Our project is the first archaeological study of a space habitat–in this case, the International Space Station (ISS). We seek to understand evolving cultural, social, and material structures in the ISS’s unique context.

John Hawks Weblog – Paleoanthropology, genetics & evolution

Tracking research into human origins, from the field to the laboratory.

Kate’s Portal – Archaeology, Technology & Interloping Cats

An archaeologist with skills in public outreach, museum work, archaeological mapping, and databases. Currently working on a PhD in anthropological archaeology at Binghamton University, studying the social network of community-based archaeologists.

The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩

P. Kerim Friedman lives and teaches in Taiwan where he is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures (within the College of Indigenous Studies), at National Dong Hwa University in Hualien. Kerim is a founding member of the anthropology blog anthro{dendum}.

Krazy Kioti: The Gene Anderson Webpage

I have been working on resource- and development-related issues for the last thirty-five years. My field is cultural and political ecology.

Kristina Kilgrove at Forbes

As a bioarchaeologist, I routinely pore over the skeletons of ancient populations so that I can learn about their health, diet, and lifestyles. Most of my research focuses on understanding the ancient Romans whose lives didn’t make it into history books. I did my PhD in anthropology and MA in classical archaeology. See also Powered by Osteons.

Lactation Journey Blog – Acquanda Y. Stanford

Acquanda Stanford: Is a Sociocultural Anthropologist (PhD Student), and writes the Lactation Journey Blog, which focuses on the social, political and cultural aspects of breatfeeding among people of the African Diaspora in the United States.

Language Log

Language Log was started in the summer of 2003 by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum.

Lawn Chair Anthropology – Biological anthropology, paeleontology, evolution and development

Zachary Cofran is a biological anthropologist studying human evolution, growth and development in the Anthropology Department at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Learning versus Schooling: Susan D. Blum

Who doesn’t think there is something wrong with education? Anthropology has a lot to offer when we think about how to raise up our young–in often unexpected ways! Join me as my thinking about higher education unfolds.

Leiden Anthropology Blog

The Leiden Anthropology Blog is written by scholars at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. They write anthropology blogs about their research, teaching in the Bachelor and Master program, and share anthropological perspectives on a wide range of social issues.

Limn

Limn outlines contemporary problems. It draws material from networks of experts in the social and human sciences and is intended to be timely, diverse in perspective, authoritative, well written and beautifully designed. Limn is somewhere between a scholarly journal and an art magazine.

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.

Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility

Anthropology documents human possibility and creativity to effect change. Jason Antrosio is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Hartwick College.

Living Ethnography

Resarch and Conversations on Ethnography, Writing and Folklore. Debra Lattanzi Shutika is a Folklorist, writer and ethnographer studying immigration, communities and change.

The Local Cult

A collection of stories, photos, videos and audio. Anthropology Blogs in New Zealand.

Mammals Suck… Milk! – by Dr. Katie Hind

This blog showcases and synthesizes (pun intended!) the MANY awesome advances currently occurring in milk research from the molecule to the organism to the population to the taxon, with implications for nutrition, medicine, psychology, and evolutionary biology.

Material World – A Global Hub for Thinking About Things

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.

Medizinethnologie – Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer globalisierten Welt

The blog is run by the Work Group Medical Anthropology in the German Anthropological Association. It publishes texts (in German) on the anthropology of transnational health interventions; migration, mobility and health; and the encounters between different medical ideas and practices in an interconnected world.

The Memory Bank – A New Commonwealth Ver 5.0

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 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, and co-authors of the book, The Mermaid’s Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things.

Middle Savagery – Colleen Morgan

Middle Savagery is an accumulation of over thirteen years of thinking about archaeology, art, and digital media.

Mocking the Apocalypse – A Commentary on Culture

A blog featuring cultural commentaries, media reviews, and short essays aimed at starting discussions about the everyday social issues that continue to plague us.

Most Holy Death

Exploring the fastest growing popular faith in the Americas: La Santa Muerte. Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut, Bishop Walter Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, in collaboration with David Metcalfe, and Liminal Analytics, presents a multi-faceted exploration of the sanctification of death in the popular faith traditions of the Americas.

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.

Museum Fatigue – in a Society of the Spectacle

I’m hoping this blog might be part of the cure for museum fatigue. David Davies is associate professor of anthropology and director of East Asian Studies at Hamline University.

N=1 | Opening black boxes, one at a time…

An anthropology blog by Matthew Wolf-Meyer, associate professor of anthropology at Binghamton University and author of The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life.

The Naked Anthropologist

Dr. Laura Agustín on Migration, Trafficking and the Rescue Industry. Author of Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry.

The Narcissistic Anthropologist – Someone has to notice

We are all observers of our world to some degree or another. We all have an inner anthropologist looking around and learning and reacting to the curious bits of human culture.

Northwest Coast Archaeology – Quentin Mackie

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.

Notes from the Ethnoground – Glenn H. Shepard

As an ethnobotanist and field anthropologist living in the Brazilian Amazon, I often travel in what Wade Davis calls “the ethnosphere.” I use this log for reflecting on journeys and explorations both outward and inward, recent and past.

NPR 13.7: Cosmos and Culture

Group blog set at the intersection of science and culture, where Barbara J. King blogged from 2011-2018 (NPR closed this blog in April 2018). Barbara J. King is an anthropology professor emerita at the College of William and Mary. She writes about the cognition, emotion and welfare of animals and about biological anthropology, human evolution and gender issues.

Old Bones – Rebecca Dean

I’m a zooarchaeologist at the University of Minnesota Morris, with an interest in the historical ecology of early agricultural societies of the US Southwest and the Mediterranean region. This blog chronicles my successes and failures in research and teaching, and my constant search for family/work balance.

On the Brink – Andi Simon

Andi Simon is a Corporate Anthropologist & the author of the leadership book On The Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights.

Open Anthropology Cooperative

The Open Anthropology Cooperative (OAC) was an initiative open to all with an interest in anthropology. Forum archives are still available and there is some discussion, but phased out in 2018.

Paul Stoller on the Huffington Post

Paul Stoller is Professor of Anthropology at West Chester University. He is the author of 14 books (memoirs, novels and ethnographies) and has conducted research among the Songhay people in West Africa (Niger) and among West African immigrants in New York City. In 2013 King Karl XVI Gustav of Sweden awarded him the Anders Retzius Gold Medal in recognition of his scientific contributions to Anthropology.

Pedal Powered Anthropology

Pedal Powered Anthropology is a multimedia-based educational project dedicated to making science and academia more accessible while bringing profound travel experiences to a local level.

Pedes in terra ad sidera visus (Los pies en la tierra y la mirada en el cielo)

Pedro Maya Álvarez: Antropólogo, empresario y observador del impacto de las nuevas tecnologías en la vida y las relaciones sociales.

Peregrination: The Ethnography of Shaligram Shila

This blog is comprised of thoughts and commentary regarding the interpretive and ritual practices of the sacred stones called Shaligram.

[Per]Suit of Anthropology

Dedicated to the exploration of modern business trends and perspectives from the view of the anthropologist. Business and Anthropology have more in common and more to learn from one another than readily acknowledged. Topics include Western business practices and the impact of those decisions on socio-cultural institutions worldwide.

Perspectives in Anthropology – Open-Access Anthropological Publications

Perspectives in Anthropology is an online publication series that launched in 2014. The series specializes in articles on Social, Cultural, Medical, Urban and Visual Anthropology which are available online as open-access and free-to-read.

Philbu’s Blog – Philipp Budka, Social & cultural anthropologist from Vienna

Anthropology blogs on media and technology, Indigenous internet practices and media, technology enhanced learning and ethnographic fieldwork.

The Pleistocene Scene – Human Evolution, Biological Anthropology, & 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 comparative anatomy, genetics and demography.

PopAnth – Hot Buttered Humanity – Popular Anthropology

Popular anthropology for everyone. Exploring the familiar and the strange, demystifying and myth busting human culture, biology and behaviour in all times and places. Myths, music, art, archaeology, language, food, festivals, fun. Welcome to the Anthropocene!

Powered by Osteons

Kristina Kilgrove is a bioarchaeologist at the University of West Florida. This is her personal blog about archaeology, bioanthropology, and the classical world. See also Kristina Kilgrove at Forbes.

Practicing Anthropology

Blog of NAPA, the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology.

Processing Culture – Notes on fieldwork & other sundries

A cultural anthropologist who researches feminist, LGBT, and leftist activism in contemporary Russia, with a strong side interest in US gender politics. This blog contains musings, riffs, and impromptu essays from a vaguely anthropological perspective.

Publishing Archaeology

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. See also Wide Urban World.

Puella Ludens – Linda Huber

Puella Ludens means “playing girl” in Latin, and is derived from Huizinga’s theory of the “homo ludens,” or playing man. The spirit of play is essential to humanity–this “purposeless” activity is actually the heart of human “progress,” and the heart of what is great about being human. An anthropological exploration of homo ludens and his progress.

Raving Anthropology

Stories and highlights from ethnographic field work and interviews on the subject of drug use, drug policy, harm reduction and dance music culture in Toronto and Vancouver.

Reading Notes in the Anthropology of Christianity

Ingie Hovland is a social/cultural anthropologist who writes on Christianity. She is the author of Mission Station Christianity: Norwegian Missionaries in Colonial Natal and Zululand, Southern Africa 1850-1890.

relevANTH – Seeing the relevance of anthropology in everyday life

Dr. Carie Little Hersh is an American cultural anthropologist, former attorney, and teaching professor in Anthropology at Northeastern University. This is her personal blog about anthropology and its relevance to everyday life.

The Rockstar Anthropologist – Where anthropology comes to chat

Myeashea Alexander is a physical anthropology grad student and science and art enthusiast. This blog is to de-mystify the WORLD of ANTHROPOLOGY! This all-inclusive discipline needs better PR (and anthropology blogs).

Rust Belt Anthro

Contemporary Archaeology and Anthropology in the Postindustrial United States. Kaeleigh Herstad is a PhD candidate in the department of anthropology at Indiana University and technical editor of the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage.

Sam Grace – talks to imaginary anthropologists

A blog by Samantha L. Grace, a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Arizona.

SAPIENS – Anthropology / Everything Human

SAPIENS aims to transform how the public understands anthropology. Every piece of content is grounded in anthropological research, theories, or thinking. We present stories and perspectives that are authoritative, accessible, and relevant–but still lively and entertaining.

Sara Perry – The Archaeological Eye

Dr Sara Perry is the Director of Studies of Digital Heritage, Director of Studies of Archaeological Information Systems, and Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Management in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York (UK).

Sarah Kendzior – Digital Media and Politics

I am a writer. I am best known for my critical take on the “prestige economy”, my reporting on St. Louis, my coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. My best-selling essay collection, The View From Flyover Country, is newly updated for 2018 and available as a paperback.

Shreds and Patches – Jason Baird Jackson

I am an ethnographer and ethnologist whose work is centered in the fields of folklore studies and cultural anthropology. 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. Since 2013, I have served as Director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures at Indiana University, where I am also a Professor of Folklore and Anthropology.

Sindre Bangstad – A Social Anthropologist In Search of Parrhesia

Sindre Bangstad is a social anthropologist currently affiliated with the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo in Norway. This site features posts related to areas of research such as secularism, Islam and Islamophobia, hate speech as well as religion and the public sphere.

The Smell of Evolution

Kara C. Hoover is a bioanthropologist interested in human adaptation. The blog particularly focuses on the human sense of smell–its evolutionary biology and genetics within the ecological and cultural context.

Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA)

We promote study of visual representation and media. 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.

Somatosphere – Science, Medicine, & Anthropology

A collaborative website covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psychology and bioethics. Founded in 2008 by a small group of medical anthropologists, Somatosphere has grown to become a key online forum for debate and discussion in medical anthropology, as well as in the humanities and social sciences of health and medicine more broadly.

Sound Ethnography Project

The Sound Ethnography Project is an experiment in engaging with sound to produce novel ethnographic methods and forms. The project began out of the University of California, Irvine through the collaborative initiative of graduate students in anthropology.

Space + Anthropology

tech | culture | space | anthropology | sci-fi | art

Spider Monkey Tales – Michelle Rodrigues

Michelle Rodrigues is a primatologist/biological anthropologist who studies comparative social behavior and endocrinology.

stadtgeselle – Urban Anthropology & New Identities Meet Politics of Culture

Michael Anranter, Political scientist and cultural-social anthropologist in Vienna. Stadtgeselle may best translate as “urban apprentice.” Connects personal experiences, anthropological and political knowledge with the objective of exploring relations of identity and space. Weekly in German or English.

Standplaats Wereld – Nederland en de Wereld in Antropologisch Perspectief

A platform for informative, provocative, or surprising opinions about topical issues in the Netherlands and the rest of the world, viewed from an anthropological perspective. Contributions come from students and staff of the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at VU University Amsterdam.

Struggle Forever! A Guide to Utopia – Jeremy Trombley

This blog is an intervention. It’s intention is to make a difference in the way we engage with the myriad entities 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 Superorganic – Barry R. Bainton

Dedicated to Applied Anthropology and the anthropological exploration of the human species and its environment. Our goal is to 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.

Tabsir – Insight on Islam & the Middle East

Scholars concerned about stereotypes, misinformation and propaganda spread in the media and academic forums on Islam and the Middle East.

Teaching Anthropology Blog

Teaching Anthropology is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute dedicated to the teaching of anthropology. The Teaching Anthropology blog has information about projects, research, and other issues relevant to the teaching of anthropology.

Teaching Culture

The purpose of this blog is to build a community of anthropologists interested in pedagogy and to provide them with a reputable source of information and a way to share news on teaching anthropology, publishing in the field, new innovations, new books, and anthropology blogs.

This Anthro Life – Podcasting Complex Worlds through Public Conversations

We use our training to show how complex our world truly is and how that’s a beautiful thing. We expose injustices by revealing often hidden assumptions in everyday language, technology use, or body gestures. We are driven by the values of increasing social consciousness, acceptance and promotion of diversity, honest inquiry, and promote these in an inclusive, entertaining way.

trinketization: things that don’t fit in the attic

Things that don’t fit in the attic, collected bits, some new writing (John Hutnyk) and some snips from others. Answers to all questions about trinkets, and Capital.

UK Visual Anthropology: Audio-Visual Interventions

Staff, students and friends of the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent. This blog develops our social media abilities and shows some of our work. Enthusiastic about a public and engaged anthropology and passionate of the importance of feedback in creating a genuine shared anthropology.

Una antropóloga en la luna: blog de antropología

Noemí. Educadora social y antropóloga social y cultural.

Urban Fieldnotes

Urban Fieldnotes was a street style blog documenting fashion, style, and dress on the streets of Philadelphia and beyond, from 2012-2017. Brent Luvaas’s current project, Street Anthropology is on Instagram.

Violent Metaphors – Thoughts from the intersection of science, pseudoscience, & conflict

Jennifer Raff is assistant professor at the University of Kansas, in the department of Anthropology. Studies the genomes of contemporary and ancient peoples in order to uncover details of human prehistory.

Visual Anthropology of Japan

In the spirit of open-text, collaboration, communication and good anthropology… Visual Anthropology of Japan explores Japanese culture through photography, film and other visual methods.

The Wenner Gren Blog

The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. is a private operating foundation dedicated to the advancement of anthropology throughout the world.

Wide Urban World

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 also Publishing Archaeology).

The Wilds of Wyoming

A Little Bit of Culture, A Little Bit of Dirt. An anthropology blogs outlet for mad dashes across state lines and around the world, writing and posting pictures about culture, geology, and anything else interesting.

Youth Circulations

Youth Circulations is a nexus for research, art and activism around youth mobility and the politics of representation. Born of a shared frustration over media portrayals of young migrants and their families, we offer here a curated collection of these images and, in response, a meaningful and necessarily global critique.

Zachary Blair

Urban Development, Violence, Political Economy, Multiculturalism

Zero Anthropology

Zero Anthropology in its most basic sense is a project of anti-imperialism, growing out of a discipline with a long history and a deep epistemological connection to colonialism. The aim is to transform anthropology into something that is neither Eurocentric nor elitist.

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