AnthroHacker
AnthroHacker offers up-to-date practical field advice for anthropologists and other social scientists.
Our articles will help you choose and use equipment for field research, deal with (or avoid) common problems and, ultimately, improve results.
04/10/2017
Rosinger offers encouragement & advice on how to fight stress and maintain your health while working in a research field site! anthrohacker.com
Can you stay fit in the field? When I was in graduate school, fellow students would often tell me they didn’t have time to work out because they felt they needed to constantly be reading/studying/working in the lab. Howev…
22/02/2015
Freakonomics just covered the World Bank's new sea change in development thinking, i.e. their report: Mind, Society and Behavior (with Jim Yong Kim): http://live.worldbank.org/wdr-2015-mind-society-behavior. Check it out on anthrohacker.
Hacking the World Bank on the Freakonomics Podcast Freakonomics just posted a great interview with the physician-anthropologist president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim. In it, he talks about changes in the bank's approach to encouraging developme...
08/01/2015
A German company called kraftwerk just launched a kickstarter campaign for a portable butane (lighter fluid) fuel cell that weighs just 7oz and can charge an iPhone 11 times before being refilled. Check it out at anthrohacker.com
Kraftwerk is a (very) Portable Fuel Cell Charger Just four days ago kraftwerk launched a half-million dollar Kickstarter campaign–that has already surpassed half its goal–to fund final development and production of a portable butane fuel cell for...
27/06/2014
Heading to the field in summer 2014? Asher has a new post on getting companies to underwrite some of the cost: http://anthrohacker.com/2014/06/getting-sponsored-for-fieldwork/
Getting sponsored for fieldwork Anthropology is known for its harsh living conditions for fieldwork. Conducting fieldwork in a remote desert, rainforest, mountaintop, or arctic conditions is commonplace and a seeming hazing ritua...