Hi all,as part of my studies I'm exploring the multiple roles environmental discourses are engaged by different environmental movements, at a both grassroot level as well as at an institutional and policy related one. Notions of equilibrial ecologies,and the way in which human impact can be detrimental to it (and discoursively tends to be) , are in fact pervasively common in popular understandings of environmental sustainability.In relation to such anthropogenic 'pressures', I'm striken by the…See More

Discuss fieldwork, ethics on methods and tools of the anthropological trade.Every fieldworker has been faced with questions regarding their own work and how they should proceed.This group should also used as an introduction to fieldwork issues.See More

For those interested in agriculture and anthropology!

The aim of this group is to discuss issues of consumption through multiple perspectives, by investigating consumption as praxis, its relations to capitalism, historical developments and everydayness, ethnographic aspects...and more!

I guess the title is self-explanatory... Foodies unite!

May at 1st seem banal, but hair as extension of the self; the processes associated with 'doing' hair; its many colours & textures; lengths & locations; its 'natural' and 'non-natural' forms, make hair a fascinating object of anthropological enquirySee More

A forum to discuss how economic anthropology might be regenerated by taking advantage of new social forms such as this one.