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Savage Minds is now anthro{dendum}. Please visit us there.

About Savage Minds

Savage Minds is now anthro{dendum}. Please visit us there to see our latest posts and learn more about the change. This site will be kept online as a read-only archive. [Original “about” text follows below.]

Savage Minds is a group blog that has been writing about sociocultural anthropology since 2005. To contact individual authors see the links next to their names below, or visit our Contact page to contact the editors. For a comprehensive list of anthropology blogs, see here.

Recent Activity

  • Bidding "bon voyage" to la pensée sauvage: Why the "Savage Minds" name change couldn't come soon enough (13)
    • Brooke Suraba — Glad to hear it! Thanks for your blog Savannah Martin.
    • Kerim — @Michael Scroggins As mentioned elsewhere on the blog, we are in the process of migrating...
  • Three Places to Avoid if You’re New to Anthropology (12)
    • Matt — I'm not sure what r/Anthropology looks like now, but I'm not surprised that it's on...
    • Dick Powis — Hi H. Kamienski. Thank you for your kind and thoughtful response to what you have...
  • What you can REALLY do with an anthropology degree (15)
    • Shafi Williams — I'm so glad I happened upon this! I'm about to graduate and people ask me...
  • On the 90th Anniversary of the First European Crossing Of New Guinea, "Explorer" Benedict Allen Claims to Have Done It For The First Time (3)
    • Barbara Piper — Karl Rambo's comment prompts at least three minor observations. First, earlier generations of anthropologists, especially...
    • John Horsfall — "Allen claims that this walk was “the first recorded crossing of the Central Mountain Ranges...
  • Enchantment as Methodology (2)
    • bobrotenberg — Thank you, Yana. This is a good argument for taking sensuous learning in the field...

Contributors

  • AnonymousZoe Todd
  • AnonymousUzma Rizvi
  • AnonymousRebecca Nelson
  • AnonymousChristopher Kelty
  • AnonymousAlex Golub
  • AnonymousDick Powis
  • AnonymousMatthew Thompson
  • AnonymousAdam Fish
  • AnonymousZoë Wool
  • AnonymousRyan Anderson
  • AnonymousKerim Friedman
  • AnonymousMaia Green
  • AnonymousCarole McGranahan

Recent Guest Bloggers

  • AnonymousSavannah Martin
  • AnonymousSally Applin
  • AnonymousCourtney Cecale
  • AnonymousBianca C. Williams

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  • AnonymousCaio Fernando Flores Coelho
  • AnonymousEdward Chong

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Recent Posts

  • Savage Minds is dead! Long live anthro{dendum}!
  • On the 90th Anniversary of the First European Crossing Of New Guinea, “Explorer” Benedict Allen Claims to Have Done It For The First Time
  • Three Places to Avoid if You’re New to Anthropology
  • The end of (the capitalist white supremacist heteropatriarchal hate-full order of) the world, a survival guide:
  • Bidding “bon voyage” to la pensée sauvage: Why the “Savage Minds” name change couldn’t come soon enough
  • Othered by Anthropology: Being a Student of Color in Anglo-cized Academia
  • Enchantment as Methodology
  • #MeToo: A Crescendo in the Discourse about Sexual Harassment, Fieldwork, and the Academy (Part 2)
  • #MeToo: A Crescendo in the Discourse about Sexual Harassment, Fieldwork, and the Academy (Part 1)
  • About that takedown notice from the AAA

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