In a New York Times Opinion piece (Gray Matter, July 19, 2013) Yale researcher Nicholas A. Christakis decried what he frames as a lack of initiative on the part of the social sciences. Christakis claims they (we) have failed to… Read More ›
Month: July 2013
When is a Native not a “Native?”
Different kinds of fieldwork foreground different sorts of methodological and existential questions. I anticipated that my own project, researching resource management in coastal Maine households, would require not only that I continually confront the problem, so central to contemporary ethnography,… Read More ›
Welcome
Welcome to Anthropology at Home, my blog about doing anthropology at home. I’ll share my work in studying the economics of families and households, as well as thoughts and opinions on relevant topics in the social sciences and the world… Read More ›