snippets of life

The podcast, A Day in the Life of a Digital Anthropologist, takes listeners on a journey into the daily lives of digital anthropologists and explores what it really means to be an anthropologist in virtual spaces. Scarleth Milenka, executive director of the OREZ Anthropological Research organization, hosts the podcast with the goal of promoting the work of digital anthropologists and helping…

In the Anthro to UX podcast, Matt provides insights for anthropologists looking to break into user experience (UX) research through conversations with leading anthropologists working in UX. He focuses on how anthropologists have successfully made the transition, what they learned along the way, and what they would do differently. The podcast gives listeners insights into what it means to do UX…

Mourning Practices on Facebook: Facebook Shrines and Other Rituals Of Grieving in the Digital Age - Dissertation Abstract. Link to the full dissertation in the SMU archive coming soon! Image Credit Grant MacDonald

Mourning Practices on Facebook: Facebook Shrines and Other Rituals Of Grieving in the Digital Age Death is a universal, and for humans so is the experience of grief that follows. This dissertation exams how Facebook users utilize the social media platform as they mourn their loved ones, process their grief, and support the grief of others. It explores how the experience of death and loss shapes…

Sea Change 2021 – Keynote Event: Gather: An Intimate Portrait of Indigenous Food Sovereignty (Film)

Sea Change 2021: Final Program Schedule and Brochure

Greetings Everyone:Apologies to those of you who were unable to open the previous draft program schedule. Please find the full conference brochure and registration link at: http://ac.americananthro.org/event/545/We look forward to seeing you all soon!

Sea Change 2021: Program Schedule and List Of Abstracts

We are looking forward to seeing you at next week’s Annual Meeting! Please find the Program Schedule and List of Abstracts here.

Sea Change: Annual Meeting 2021 Registration

The Society of the Anthropology of Consciousness invites you to join us online over three days to investigate how we engage with communities around ongoing concerns of ecological change. The title “Sea Change” points to the context and social climate in which we currently live: a time in which drastic social, political, and environmental change is occurring. During these times of chaos…

Check out the CFP for our Spring 2021 Online Conference - Sea of Change: Lifeworlds & Ecological Upheaval

Sea Change: Lifeworlds & Ecological Upheaval Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness 39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE March 12th – 14th, 2021 (Online)   “How do people imagine the landscapes they find themselves in? How does the land shape the imagination of the people who dwell in it? How does desire itself, the desire to comprehend, shape knowledge?” -Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams   The Program Committee for

Anthropology of Consciousness' statement on recent racially-motivated violence and subsequent protests. #AnthropologyOfConsciousness, #BLM, #GeorgeFloyd, #BreonnaTaylor, #AhmaudArbery, #Wetiko, #Racism, #SystemicRacism, #OccupyAnthropology

Friends & Colleagues, The president and board of directors for Anthropology of Consciousness (AC) are angered by the unjustified killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Elijah McClain, Botham Jean, Eric Grner, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Philandro Castile, and the countless others whose names have not been afforded the national spotlight during…

AAA 2020 CFP Truth and Responsibility: The Anthropologist as Other

The history of the field of anthropology is fraught with racism, classism (and many other “isms”) which we continue to grapple with today. What is the responsibility to the constructed “other” in a discipline that was created in part, to assist colonial endeavors against the “other”? What do we mean by “cultural relativism” when we continue to try to rationalize or understand the worldview of the…

Consciousness, Community, and Communitas in a Post-Covid World 

The Coronavirus Pandemic has killed many aspects of the pre-crisis world, and we are in the liminal zone before a new world is born. Some have even spoken of this time as a rite of passage for humanity. As Victor Turner has shown us, initiation is a place of crisis and opportunity, peril and possibility. 

On the shadow side critics…

2020 AAA Annual Meeting Theme:

Truth and Responsibility

November 18-22, 2020

St Louis, MO.

Anthropology of Consciousness: Call for Papers, Panels and Co-sponsored Sessions

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

― Zora Neale Hurston

“The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.”

—Ruth Benedict

  We are thrilled to announce the theme of the 20…

‘Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer’ has been published by Berghahn (hardback and eBook). 

This is the first book in English on the Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn), a Brazilian Spiritualist Christian Order that is rapidly spreading across South and North America, and Europe. It should be of particular interest for those working on Brazilian religions,…

Happy Halloween! The anthropologist in me wants to know. What are you dressing up as for Halloween? Why?

  Halloween is such a fascinating holiday to consider from a cultural perspective. During Halloween season we revel in breaking taboos and dancing with danger. We celebrate life by mocking death. We look our fears in the face and find a way to laugh. While we spend the rest of the year doing our best to avoid the topic of death, on Halloween we look it in the face and say not today.

The…