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Colonizing Banaba
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What There Is To Fear: World Building with Colombian Refugees in Ecuador
Lisa Stevenson explores fear, world-building and the Colombian-Ecuadorian border.
The Stories They Tell Themselves: What Trump’s Base Believes
Trump’s base, Evangelical Christian science fiction, Trump and what went down at Capitol Hill.
“It Is What It Is”: Trauma as Context in Argentina
Cultural trauma as context in this ethnographic reflection on Argentina past and present.
Moving in Stillness
Researcher Simon Roberts shares his thoughts on the benefits of running to thought.
‘Faith Not Fear’ and the Spread of the Coronavirus ↗
SAPIENS / 04.09.20
Paula Sky Tullman asks how you can affect change before devastation or catastrophe hit. What role can cultural anthropology play in creating consensus despite difference?
Heidi Larson: Why Trust in Vaccines is Important ↗
NPR / 04.03.2020
Anthropologist and founding Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project at the WHO Centre of Excellence illustrates how the roots of doubt in vaccines stem from a failure of trust in our institutions and their concern for the real well-being of the populations they are meant to serve.
Why We Post ↗
University College, London / 03.08.2016
Why We Post is a global anthropological research project on the uses and consequences of social media.
The Trials of Alice Goffman ↗
New York Times / 01.17.2017
Her first book, ‘On the Run’—about the lives of young black men in West Philadelphia—has fueled a fight within sociology over who gets to speak for whom.
The Promise of Big Data
There is something almost ethnographic about the way that big data recedes into the background and quietly collects data about our lived experience.
Sound Advice
Our brains appear to come equipped with an inclination to use the individual phonemes contained in names to make sense of unfamiliar words.
In Defense of Bias
Everyone and everything has inherent bias- but that is a good thing, as long as it is recognized. Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman tells us why.
On Being Part of the Conversation on Culture
A piece on the approach to telling stories of culture and context at Peeps.