#Anthropologists

Minhaaj

sur_inqilabi

May 2016, I was hired as Manager Archives, by a shady NGO outsourced by Lok Virsa to archive nearly 10,000 audio/video tapes. They were mostly classical/folk music and documentaries about

O$mani

BrownSlimShady

Brown people really are the Dominicans of the Eastern Hemisphere when it comes to denying their partial blackness. Anthropologists have proven time and time again that the aboriginal people of

Seth Masket

smotus

Contra Jared Diamond, the rise in political polarization is *not* grounds for speculation. This is an entire literature within political science! And the idea that it's due to declining face-to-face

Tim Elfenbein

timelfen

Excited to see this edited volume, *Anthropological Data in the Digital Age*, especially chapter by @lindsaypoirier Kim Fortun @profmikefortun & Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, "Metadata, Digital Infrastructure, and the Data Ideologies of

Thibaut

Kpaxs

A monkey in a cage goes bananas, a thread.Humans in modern environments are like monkeys at the zoo.Evolutionary mismatch regarding diet, exercise and the nature of our modern social world

Dr. Sara L. Gonzalez

potatokitty

Two great sessions yesterday on #MeTooAnthro and #SAA2019 that addressed how to respond to widespread abuse in #anthro, especially in the field. Want to follow up with a thread on

Dr Fish Philosopher Todd (Dr FPT)🐟

ZoeSTodd

1. Do you understand why Indigenous anthros say we’re not safe or welcome in dominant white US/UK/Canadian Anthro?It’s not up to Nancy Scheper-Hughes to decide, nor is it up to

Faiz Aliyu

Omegasiyon

A quick Nerd thread....There is indeed a very strong link between language and thought. The language you speak broadly affects or even determines the way you experience the world, from

manvir singh

mnvrsngh

People often assume that hunter-gatherers only lived in nomadic, egalitarian bands. But throughout history, HGs built societies as complex & stratified as those of many agriculturalists. My new favorite example

Jonah S. Rubin

js_rubin

1/ Hi. I’m a cultural anthropologist. Can we talk about the “culture” part of #CancelCulture? 2/A lot of talk about #CancelCulture focuses on whether “cancelling” is a real phenomenon, whether

Hilary Agro

hilaryagro

This is a good question, so I'm going to write a short thread about the lens that anthropologists work from. We try to combine a radical ethical awareness of what's

Jessie Fredlund

JessieFredlund

Please do not underestimate how dangerous kind of thinking is. Ecofascism is rising, fast.Let's unpack what's going on here (THREAD)....1/https://twitter.com/business/status/1200078223037673472 The original report is available here: https://a

Ms. Unformation

MsUnformation

Society and Culture:𝗰𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀/kɒkˈwɒmb(ə)l əˈstreɪlˈlɪs/𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯A male beast from Aussieland, prone to making outrageously stupid statements & inapprop

MeTooAnthro

MeTooAnthro

1 / THREAD / Shortly after the story of Harvard anthro dept’s 3 sexual harassers broke, we were contacted by a Black anthropologist whose experiences of bullying, harassment & abuse

sonofiqbal

mullahyderabadi

a breakdown of Muslim twitter *a thread* (this is by no means exhaustive): Diaspora Muslim Twitter: Coachella of Muslims. New Music Friday of Spotify dominates this culture. In search of

Dr. Sara L. Gonzalez

potatokitty

Packed house for Decolonial Methods: Changing Anthropological Climates Through Methodological Disruptions in CCWest Rm 211. #AAACASCA2019 So excited for the second half of this ongoing dialogue on anti-colonial and anti-imperial