Loomnie

A new blog by anthropologist Barbara Miller.

In its About page:

This blog is a project of the Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA) research and policy program of the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Along with several  colleagues at GW and anthropological professionals working in the Washington area, I founded CIGA in 2002. Its mission is wide-ranging: to promote awareness of the relevance of anthropological knowledge to contemporary issues and to enhance discussion and debate within and beyond anthropology about contemporary issues.

While centered on cultural anthropology, CIGA’s mission, and that of this blog, encompasses all four fields of anthropology as defined in anthropology: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology (in alphabetical order).

From the little I’ve read of it, it is a site to keep returning to.

First things: For those who don’t know – and I would expect that that is a large chunk of the readership – until recently, I used to have another blog called Native Anthropologist.It is a blog where I discussed my research as an anthropologist. I have decided to close that down and move the content over here (actually, the right term would be to duplicate, since the content is still there and I just copied it to Loomnie.com).  From now on I will have only one blog, which is Loomnie.com, and I will be discussing the issues I discussed on Native Anthropologist here as well. Those who don’t know much about anthropology or what anthropologist do will find some discussions around here. Of course, Loomnie.com is still about my experiences, thoughts, ideas and opinions; I have only added some more to it.

Now, to the link love:
Check out the blackboard blogger of Monrovia at White African’s.
My friend Oz guest-blogs at Nigerian Curiosity on the Economics of Nollywood.
Guess who would make the best journalists? Anthropologists, of course.
The political economy of urbanization in contemporary Africa, from the anthropologist who coined the term ‘informal economy’.