Imponderabilia

57 members Latest Activity: Jun 9

The new international student anthropology journal!

For all interested in writing, illustrating, editing and becoming involved with…

Engaging Anthropology in Practice

93 members Latest Activity: on Saturday For those interested in taking anthropology to audiences beyond the academy. We hope to share ideas about achieving a more publicly engaged…

Body & Form

33 members Latest Activity: May 9 ...ethnography of the sensory, landscapes and built-forms

Academic language versus political advocacy

3 members Latest Activity: Feb 25, 2011 I wanted to start a group that discusses the difference between academic writing and political advocacy. I would like to have people share…

Finding fieldsites

4 members Latest Activity: May 31 Finding a fieldsite in which to do anthropology is often a challenge for newer scholars. Here I hope to create a group that shares stories of finding…

decolonizing anthropology

32 members Latest Activity: on Saturday Decolonizing anthropology is a group committed to interrogating and critiquing anthropology. It is a forum that begins with colonialism(s) as a given…

Goldsmiths Anthropology Uncut

38 members Latest Activity: May 29 A place for students, staff, alumni and friends of the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London to organise against the coalition…

Semantics in Social Science

19 members Latest Activity: May 31 "We should altogether avoid, like the plauge, discussing the meaning of words." - Karl Popper 1973 A group for those who feel that semantic…

Anthropology of Islam in the Americas

16 members Latest Activity: Apr 11

This group is designed for anyone interested in the study of Islam in the Americas. Its purpose is to share resources and ideas on the topic. It…

Theory for Anthropology

108 members Latest Activity: May 31 OAC already has a group named Theory in Anthropology, a good place to discuss theories already embraced by anthropologists. This group is, instead,…

Institutional Ethnography

21 members Latest Activity: Apr 6 Researchers from many disciplines take up this method pioneered by Canadian sociologist, Dorothy E. Smith. A place to share/discuss IE innovations.

Anthropology of Emotion

68 members Latest Activity: on Saturday Anthopology holds at its core the question of what it is to be a thinking, feeling human being. Emotion and how it is portrayed and interpreted…

Arctic & Northern Cultures

15 members Latest Activity: May 24 Regarding the study of indigenous and other cultures in northern and arctic regions.

Material Cultures

81 members Latest Activity: May 8 A group about the materialities of culture and the culture of materials.

Anthropology of Roads

27 members Latest Activity: Jan 27 Paths, trails, roads, highways, motorways...Various kinds of roads dominate human landscapes.This group is for these anthropologists who have roads…

Anthropology of (Mass) Media

46 members Latest Activity: Apr 6 For all those who are interested in Theory of Media Anthropology and who want to share, connect and exchange about specific subfields that are not…

OAC Book Reviews

95 members Latest Activity: Apr 6 For keeping up with newly published anthropology books and engaging in open discussions about them.

Anthropology of Recycling/Antropología del Reciclaje

11 members Latest Activity: Jun 8 In this group I put and I hope to receive and photos, etnographics datas, articles, ideas, thoughts, any and differents points in relation with…

Anthropologie du Japon

5 members Latest Activity: Nov 21, 2012 Groupe transdisciplinaire, ouvert aux chercheurs, et consacré à la discussion autour des Etudes sur le Japon (anthropologie, sociologie, histoire,…

Anthropology of Fishing

22 members Latest Activity: Jul 18, 2012 A group for discussion of fishing people and their social and cultural characteristics, fisheries-management problems, theories, case studies of…