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Houston Chronicle

They call each other negro and sing and joke about living in an all-black community. But ask the villagers here about their African ancestry, and they respond with blank stares. Around the turn of the 17th century, Mexico imported more African slaves than anywhere else in the New World. But countless Mexicans are unaware of that history or that there are blacks in the country. The Mexican census does not acknowledge them. Indians get more recognition than blacks, who speak Spanish. >>continue

University of Berkeley News

Chochenyo, the language of the Muwekma Ohlone people, has been silent since the 1930s, but a handful of tribal members working with mentors from the University of California, Berkeley's linguistics department are bringing it back to life >>continue

Nunatsiaq News

At 473 pages, the book is unlikely to appeal to the audience its authors say they’re aiming for: children, young parents, and teachers of Nunavut. It is more likely to attract academics, who should be its secondary audience. No one would refute the idea that Nunavut needs to hang onto the history that its elders can only safeguard temporarily. It’s to be hoped that in this case, the achievement will inspire someone else to produce a book that people want to read late into the night, and maybe pass on to someone else.
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Christian Science Monitor

For centuries, it was tribal leaders rather than kings who truly ruled Afghanistan. "Given the fact that the present administration neither is very strong nor has a great deal of legitimacy, tribal structures have rebounded", says David Edwards, an anthropologist with extensive experience in Afghanistan >>continue

UC Davis News

Peruvian peasants, Italian consumers and California peach farmers are all helping to promote crop diversity in unexpected ways, says a UC Davis anthropologist who studies agriculture >>continue

Daily Telegraph

Michael Young's 690-page book is the first of two projected volumes. It takes Malinowski from his birth in Poland in 1884 to his return to England from the Trobriand Islands in 1920 - when his most famous work was yet to be written, and his public career lay ahead of him. Young has made use of a wealth of private papers, especially diaries and love-letters; he has also tracked down archival sources in Poland, England, Australia, Papua New Guinea and elsewhere >>continue

The Japan Post

"Unless you understand how money is moving about the economy, it is impossible to have any meaningful analysis of a society or its culture; and unless you look at cultural issues, it is difficult to ever understand how a financial system works when it is outside your own culture", says anthropologist Gillian Tett >>continue (link updated)

Washington University in St. Louis

Are altruism and morality artificial outgrowths of culture, created by humans to maintain social order? Or is there, instead, a biological foundation to ethical behavior? "We believe that, instead of being genetically predisposed to competition and aggression, humans have a biological foundation for unselfish social interaction," sazs Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., a professor of anthropology >>continue