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Blog Roll and Web Links
Reading anthro blogs is a great way to keep up with the latest developments and discoveries in the field, to get a sense of the most important debates and controversies and to find out what anthropologists think about world events. There are literally hundreds of blogs maintained by professional anthropologists from all the subfields (a quite comprehensive list can be found at http://anthropologyreport.com/anthropology-blogs-2014/).
- The Human Economy Blog (http://thehumaneconomy.blogspot.pt/)
Maintained by the Human Economy Program at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, it says, “It is designed to bring back human concerns into economic studies and brings together researchers from around the worldwith experience in diverse disciplines.”
- Loomnie (http://loomnie.com/)
A blog by Nigerian anthropologist Olumide Abimbola who has conducted multi-sited research on second-hand clothing markets and now works at the African Development Bank.
- http://pablogrodriguez.blogspot.com/
In Spanish (but translatable with Google into English), this blog covers anthropology of development, economic development issues, and social research methods.
- Anthropological Observations (http://anthropologicalobservations.blogspot.com/)
Anthropologist Ted Fischer, author of a new book on the anthropology of happiness and well-being called The Good Life, reflects on economics, politics, and daily life.
- CultureBy (http://cultureby.com/)
Grant McCracken, whose work traverses academic writing and private consulting in the business world, writes about consumer culture and business in this blog.
- Erin B. Taylor (http://erinbtaylor.com/)
This blog by economic anthropologist Erin Taylor, whose research is mostly in the Dominican Republic, explores material culture, mobile money, and socio-economic development.
- The Memory Bank (http://thememorybank.co.uk/)
Keith Hart is a prominent economic anthropologist and uses this blog to promote a new book about culture and money and to offer reflections on the culture of banking and finance.
Other Web Resources
The Oxford Bibliographies site includes entries on capitalism, commodities, consumerism, economic anthropology:
The Economist features an A–Z dictionary of terms. Great for anthropologists who might not be the most fluent in economics: http://www.economist.com/economics-a-to-z/
Wikipedia provides a concise and accurate summary of the formalist versus substantivist debate discussed in chapter 9: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_formalist_vs_substantivist_debate
The Society for Economic Anthropology provides a list of teaching resources and useful web links for anthropology instructors: http://econanthro.org/resources/links/