Category Archive: Anthropology

Review of Kilminster’s Book on Norbert Elias

Kilminster NEPpS

This is a book review (draft version) for the Journal of International Political Anthropology. Please check their website for free published version. Only quote and reference published version at IPA website.

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“Beauty” CFP by IPA Journal

The central concern is that of beauty and its role in culture, politics, and all realms of human social life. Beauty is to be considered as a central experience to human life. This, as the broad principle of the book, opens the field to allow for a variety of papers that focus on beauty across many different settings.

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IPA Summer School

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Just back from an invigorating, stimulating and exhausting week in beautiful environs of Florence in Italy for the 3rd International Political Anthropology Summer School. This years theme was ‘Corruption’, an important theme for the times we live in, and a theme that was certainly brought to its fundamental theoretical foundations that will enrich each of …

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Content *Approved*

Here is an image from the guys at XKCD, oh how very relevant to contemperory debates on technology and communication. I do not agree with the image as presented however this will be the subject for the next batch of essays I give to a class on mass-media and censorship. Simply hand the class the …

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IPA Argonauts

“I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold…”

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