In a new series of postings, we draw two research projects on miniatures together in dialogue: Miniatures Matter Jonathan Walz Jonathan Walz is an anthropologist who practices archaeology in eastern Africa and the western Indian Ocean. This contribution arises from his long-term interest in representations of archaeology and Africa andContinue Reading
Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology This project explores the contribution of consumer artifacts to the imagination and construction of modern US identity and cosmopolitan, global citizenship. We undertake fieldwork in our living room (Riggins 1994), offering a critical visual and cultural analysis to show how peripheral objectsContinue Reading
Digital Ethnography Research Centre, School of Media and Communication and the Centre for Urban Research (Beyond Behaviour Change research program), School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University The Inhabiting Buildings project adopts an innovative participatory research methodology to map and promote change in the RMIT community to improveContinue Reading
Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference 2013 Theme: The Human in the World, the World in the Human Australian National University 6-8 November 2013 The theme of this conference embraces anthropology’s enduring commitments to grappling with the human condition in the widest terms. Yet it also directs attention to the waysContinue Reading
From Jonathan Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology and Editor in Chief of Consumption, Markets and Culture Consumption Markets & Culture has been accepted for inclusion in the Social Sciences Citation Index from volume 13 (2010). The journal will receive its first impact factor in the 2012 Journal Citation Reports, whichContinue Reading
[image found here] A recent article by Vadim Nikitin on nostalgia in Russia for the USSR called my attention to a number of current projects and publications that focus specifically on fond reminiscences of the unique material culture of Soviet life: The multivolume glossy, expensive books arising from the NamedniContinue Reading