Tag: Anthropology

Nick Seaver on Dissecting the Algorithmic Organism

By Michael Todd, Social Science Space editor | Published: February 16, 2018

When discussing the nexus of computer science and social science, the transaction is usually in one direction – what can computer scientists do for social scientists. But a recent paper from Tufts University anthropologist Nick Seaver reverses that flow, using the tool of ethnography to interrogate the tools of engineering.

Posted in Communication, Impact, Interdisciplinarity, Interview | Also tagged Algorithms, Algorithms as Culture, Ethnography, Nick Seaver | Leave a comment

The Anthropological Roots of Ursula Le Guin

By Philip W. Scher | Published: February 8, 2018

A connection can be made in between Ursula Le Guin’s fiction and her father’s groundbreaking work in anthropology. His ideas – which had a profound influence on his daughter’s writing – stemmed from an important development in the discipline of anthropology, one that viewed human culture as something that wasn’t ingrained, and had to be taught and learned.

Posted in Communication, Impact | Also tagged Alfred Louis Kroeber, Ursula K. LeGuin | Leave a comment

Recalling a Forgotten Anthropologist (and Victim) of Structural Racism

By David Varel | Published: February 13, 2017

This Black History Month, remember the trailblazing work of an American anthropologist, Allison Davis, who both studied and was a victim of the nation's entrenched racism.

Posted in Impact, Recognition | Also tagged Allison Davis, Black History, Structural Racism, The Conversation | 1 Response

Book Review: Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science

By Ed Jones | Published: January 19, 2017

In Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science, Marc Flandreau traces the interwoven development of anthropology, global finance and scientific study, placing all three at the heart of late-19th-century British imperialism.

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Book Review: Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, The Pentagon and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology

By Joseph Anderson | Published: August 15, 2016

"Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, The Pentagon and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology" offers a historical account of how the US military industrial complex has had a profound influence on the development of US anthropology during the Cold War and into the present day. Reviewer Joseph Anderson sees the book as a dense but readable outline that confronts how ethnographic research in the field has been shaped by wider political-economic force.

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What Does an Anthropologist Actually Do?

By Kirrilly Thompson | Published: May 4, 2016

Anthropologists use ethnographic methods designed to facilitate their competency in another culture to understand what people do, think, feel and say that might seem strange to an outsider but are completely familiar to an insider. But what does that mean in practice?

Posted in Early Career | Also tagged The Conversation | 1 Response

This Book About an Anthropologist Ought to Win the Man Booker

By David Rudrum | Published: September 29, 2015

A corporate anthropologist is told to write a report that will “name what’s taking place right now" and is “the First and Last Word on our age." And so we set the stage for what in turn David Rudrum argues is itself a zeitgeist-defining work.

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Ebola: The Human Cost of Neglecting the Social Sciences

By Robert Dingwall | Published: December 7, 2014

There is a genuine cost from ignoring lessons from social science in the fight against Ebola. What's even sadder -- these lessons were taught in blood three decades ago in the fights against AIDS. Are we ready for the next malady?

Posted in International Debates, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Science & Social Science | Also tagged Ebola, Health, Media, Policy, Public Health, Social Science, Sociology | Leave a comment

Tag: Anthropology

Nick Seaver on Dissecting the Algorithmic Organism

The Anthropological Roots of Ursula Le Guin

Recalling a Forgotten Anthropologist (and Victim) of Structural Racism

Book Review: Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science

Book Review: Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, The Pentagon and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology

What Does an Anthropologist Actually Do?

This Book About an Anthropologist Ought to Win the Man Booker

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