Indigenous peoples boxed in by Brazil’s political crisis
Indigenous peoples boxed in by Brazil’s political crisis Agribusiness has unprecedented leverage over highly unpopular Brazilian president Michel Temer, who is faced with several corruption charges and is struggling for…
Where is the local? Partial biologies, ethnographic sitings
Where is the local? Partial biologies, ethnographic sitings Where is the local for the ethnographer? A challenge facing anthropological interest in “local biologies” is that both biology and locality are…
Context effects
Context effects Comment on Enfield, N. J. and Jack Sidnell. 2017. The concept of action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Go to Source
Debates in the Digital Humanities: Scholarly Publishing Across Print/Digital Streams
Debates in the Digital Humanities: Scholarly Publishing Across Print/Digital Streams Poster Download (PDF, ) Abstract Debates in the Digital Humanities, an edited collection featuring contributions from over forty DH scholars…
Juxta Commons
Juxta Commons Poster Download (PDF, ) Abstract Free and open source, Juxta Commons is an online workspace for comparing multiple witnesses to a single textual work, privately storing collations, and…
Great Parchment Book Project
Great Parchment Book Project Poster Download (PDF, ) Abstract The Great Parchment Book of the Honourable The Irish Society is a major survey, compiled in 1639 by a Commission instituted…
Visual Historiography: Visualizing “The Literature of a Field”
Visual Historiography: Visualizing “The Literature of a Field” Poster Click here or on the image to visit the interactive poster. Abstract The call for visualizing “Big Data” has generated a…
Local Programs, Global Audiences
Local Programs, Global Audiences In the scholarly communication ecosystem, lectures and conference roundtables offer valuable opportunities to share one’s on-going research and reflections with an engaged audience. Although social media,…
What terms to use?
What terms to use? Response to comments on Kipnis, Andrew. “Governing the souls of Chinese modernity” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 217–238. Go to Source
Cyborg political machines: Political brokering and modern political campaigning in Colombia
Cyborg political machines: Political brokering and modern political campaigning in Colombia Colombian professional political consultants couple information technologies and local political brokering to circumvent strict voter privacy regulations that limit…
“Wasting time” the Veratan Way: Conspicuous leisure and the value of waiting in Fiji
“Wasting time” the Veratan Way: Conspicuous leisure and the value of waiting in Fiji This article explores time as a vehicle of values in Fiji through an analysis of abundant…
The virtualism of “capacity building” workshops in indigenous Amazonia: Ethnography in the new middle ground
The virtualism of “capacity building” workshops in indigenous Amazonia: Ethnography in the new middle ground Sustainable development and conservation NGOs in Amazonia often hold workshops in which they task indigenous…
Failing well: Accommodating vices in an ideal Vedic city
Failing well: Accommodating vices in an ideal Vedic city Since the early 1970s, the small town of Mayapur in West Bengal has been home to a multinational Gaudiya Vaishnava community…
Taipei Gay “Bear” Culture as a Sexual Field, or, Why Did Nanbu Bear Fail?
Taipei Gay “Bear” Culture as a Sexual Field, or, Why Did Nanbu Bear Fail? Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Go to Source
Exploring Social Tags in a Digitized Humanities Online Collection
Exploring Social Tags in a Digitized Humanities Online Collection Poster Download (PDF, 496KB) Abstract The recent development of Web technologies has been implemented in many applications with an emphasis on…
DARIAH-EU’s Virtual Competency Center on Research and Education
DARIAH-EU’s Virtual Competency Center on Research and Education Poster Download (PDF, ) Abstract DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts in Humanities — ) is a large-scale, long-term, pan-European endeavor…
“Where do you need us?” — The National Library in the Digital Humanities
“Where do you need us?” — The National Library in the Digital Humanities Poster Abstract In the past two decades or so, national libraries have been digitising millions of pages…
Encoding Historical Financial Records
Encoding Historical Financial Records Poster Download (PDF, 817KB) Abstract A significant number of scholars in Europe and North America are now involved in projects utilizing or encoding historical financial and…
Digitization and Dissemination: A Reverse Image Lookup Study to Assess the Reuse of Images of Paintings from the National Gallery’s Website
Digitization and Dissemination: A Reverse Image Lookup Study to Assess the Reuse of Images of Paintings from the National Gallery’s Website Poster Download (PDF, 570KB) Abstract Once digital images of…
Sacred necropolitics
Sacred necropolitics In this meditation, Anya Bernstein and Alexei Yurchak discuss Yurchak’s essay, “The canon and the mushroom: Lenin, sacredness, and Soviet collapse,” which is published in the current issue.…