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Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #3: The Blogroll (plus)

Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #3: The Blogroll (plus)

As promised, here’s a list of the anthropology and archaeology blogs that are still active from Jason Antrosio’s archive from 2017. I found one site that’s actually not active, so that brings us down to 76 blogs that are still running. But Lorena Gibson just posted a new piece on Anthropod, so that brings us right back up to our total of 77! Yay! In the first section of this post I’ll list all the sites from Jason’s list that {+}

The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #2

The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #2

Well, by now most of you have heard the news that this blog is closing down. That whole conversation was happening in the last couple of months, but really something that we’d been talking about for the past few years. Back in 2021 we all agreed to try to revive this blog, but things just didn’t take off. There was just so much going on at the time. This site, like many others, was a casualty of the mass exodus {+}

The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project

The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project

As many of us already know, in the last decade or so we’ve seen some big changes with anthropology & archaeology online, particularly in relation to blogs. In short, there aren’t too many these days. This is due to what we can perhaps call the “Great Fragmentation,” when so many former bloggers left their home sites and migrated…mostly to Twitter. We all know what happened next. So what does the anthro blog landscape look like these days? What’s left? Who {+}

Around the Web Digest: March 2018

Around the Web Digest: March 2018

We got an inch of snow yesterday in Chicago and it’s going to be in the 70s tomorrow, so I don’t know how to dress anymore. However, this will not stop me from getting you your monthly gift of articles to read my loyal dendrites! Museums in the 1800’s often traded objects with each in order to grow their collections, even with culturally significant objects. Atlas Obscura takes an examination on how anthropologists helped gather these objects for museums and what anthropologists are doing now {+}

Around the Web Digest: February 2018

Around the Web Digest: February 2018

Now that spring in the northern hemisphere is returning,  my seasonal affective disorder will probably revert to regular depression again.  However, the monthly harvest of internet discourse remains fruitful with my just as consistent monthly round-up. Well if I was not already in a state of severe anxiety regarding the job market for anthropology majors and my perpetual underemployment, this set of readings from Cultural Anthropology would have Sparta kicked me into the abyss. A little curvy Paleolithic figure meets the Facebook algorithm. {+}

Anthrodendum: 2017 in Review

Anthrodendum: 2017 in Review

2017 was a very productive year for Anthro{dendum} and to kick off another year in the anthropology blogosphere, I bring our annual year in review! Our three most popular posts: “What you can REALLY do with an anthropology degree”  An honest and sobering look at the job prospectives for those with anthropology degrees. Hopefully, this will be used as a reference for undergraduates and other budding anthropologists in 2018. “Society Must Be Defended: Join us for a Read-In on 20 January 2017” {+}