A week or so ago I asked the question “what are the most popular ethnographies today that give you a sense of where the field is going, or at least what is popular right now?” With the help of a few friends, some commentors, a very large gin and tonic, and the internet, I came [...]
REAL LIVE SNOWMONKEYS JUST WAITING FOR YOU. WE ONLY NEED YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER TO CONFIRM YOU ARE 21! This takes me back to the good old days when obscure psychological processes resulted in The Blog Entry that convinced half my readers that I could speak Japanese, and eventually began the Philip K. Dick-like rift [...]
Here’s a researcher whose working on the state, violence, and the highlands in Papua New Guinea. Abby McLeod comes highly recommended — her thesis (you can read the abstract) looks very interesting indeed, as does the article she wrote with Phil Gibbs and Nicole Haley (both also extremely good eggs). My inability to get PDFs [...]