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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/).
- Allegra: A Virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology (http://allegralaboratory.net/)
This jointly run “virtual laboratory” tracks scholarly representations of “the law,” examining its “knowledge practices, authority claims, notions of subjectivity and agency.”
- Anthropoliteia (http://anthropoliteia.net/)
A group blog about police, policing, crime, law, and security from an anthropological perspective.
- Sarah Kendzior (http://sarahkendzior.com/)
Sarah Kendzior is a writer and online journalist with a PhD in political anthropology whose academic work focuses on authoritarian states in Central Asia. She writes for a wide variety of news outlets and magazines. Her blog follows global events.
- Space and Politics (http://spaceandpolitics.blogspot.com/)
Gastón Gordillo, who teaches at the University of British Columbia, blogs about the relationship between space, politics, and affect.
- Stadtgeselle (http://stadtgeselle.wordpress.com/)
Michael Anranter is a political scientist and anthropologist from Vienna. His blog, written in German and English, “connects personal experiences, anthropological and political knowledge with the objective to explore the relations of identity and space.”
- Tabsir (http://tabsir.net/)
A joint blog about “stereotypes, misinformation and propaganda spread in the media and academic forums on Islam and the Middle East. We are committed to fair, open-ended scholarly assessment of the current political issues of terrorism, gender inequality and intolerance.”
Other Web Resources
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: http://aplaorg.org/
The Oxford Bibliographies site include entries on political anthropology and violence: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0018.xml?rskey=RJam0S&result=82
Online pdf of Richard Lee’s essay “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari” regarding !Kung San informal social controls: http://www.waketech.edu/sites/default/files/libraryfiles/ereserves/ant220/kalahari.pdf