We are all consumers of many kinds of goods, and in that capacity, we can hardly be unaware of the importance of the containers in which those goods are packaged. Containers protect and condition what they contain, and they can be part of the...
A guest editorial on ‘Post-truth anthropology’ [Obsolete link removed. Original url: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8322.12346/abstract?campaign=woletoc] that I wrote for Anthropology Today is out today. It’s paywalled, I’m happy...
I’ve been talking to a colleague recently about developing a project on religion and economics under the auspices of the Religion and Political Culture Network (RPCN) at the University of Manchester. This has got me thinking about Buddhism,...
This post is a continuation of my thoughts in my previous post [Obsolete link removed. Original url: ../2015-08-17-rodney-needham-and-paul-veyne-on-belief/]… Now to Needham’s review of Veyne’s book. The review is short, and much is taken up with...
I recently came across a review [Obsolete link removed. Original url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2804131] by Rodney Needham of Paul Veyne’s Did the Greeks believe in their myths? I was quite intrigued by this as these two authors are...
Over the weekend I read Wilfred Cantwell Smith‘s The Meaning and End of Religion (1962). I knew a little about this book from Talal Asad’s 2001 article [Obsolete link removed. Original url:...
This is my first post in a long time. Over the last year I moved to Manchester and started teaching full time. I hope to return to blogging from time to time. Recently I’ve seen the transcript of the 2012 GDAT debate on the concept of...
Anthropology of Ignorance I’ve set up a JISCMail mailing list for discussion of the social scientific study of ignorance. The list will be publicly archived. To subscribe or contribute, click HERE. Get in touch with me if you have any questions.
Registration is now open for the conference: Speaking Ethically Across Borders: Interdisciplinary Approaches 8-10 January 2014 CRASSH, University of Cambridge With lectures by: Michael Lambek (Toronto) and Simon Coleman (Toronto). Including...
Here’s my review of Abby Day’s Believing in Belonging which appeared in last year’s edition of the Journal of Religion and Society [Obsolete link removed. Original url: https://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2012.030114]. Though I didn’t quite buy the...