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While browsing the web for Claude Levi Strauss posts, I stumbled upon a great site: Cognition and Culture. It is run by International Cognition & Culture Institute, an initiative of the Department of Anthropology of the London School of Economics… more »

She spent a year in Tajikistan during her PhD, looking after goats. Two years ago, she predicted the current financial crisis. "I happen to think anthropology is a brilliant background for looking at finance," anthropologist Gillian Tett, assistant edito… more »

Gaming is big business for many Native American tribes. For the Seminole tribe in Florida, gaming wealth enabled them to revive traditions and celebrate their culture in previously unimaginable ways, anthropologist Jessica R. Cattelino writes in her new… more »

Better times for the Ainu in Japan? There is an "revival of ethnic pride" going on in Japan according to ap. At the forefront are the Ainu Rebels (image). They use music and dance to rebel against a history of institutionalized discrimination. They c… more »

In 2005 his movie Metal - A Headbanger's journey took the world with storm. Now anthropologist and metal musician Sam Dunn has released "Global Metal" - a film about the global expansion of heavy metal music. Together with his co-director Scot McFayde… more »

(via CultureMatters) Prostitution is a fascinating topic and means different things in different parts of the world. In the American Sexuality Magazine, anthropologist Lisa Wynn writes about her difficulties to understand what Egyptians meant when they s… more »

Anthropologist Martin Høyem has launched the e-zine "American Ethnography", an "internet glossy on the study of cultures": We cover ethnography that relates to anything we would call America. We aim to present the tradition and practice of ethnograph… more »

After her fieldwork in a brothel in Mexico, anthropologist Patty Kelly is convinced: Legalizing and regulating prostitution has its problems. But criminalization is worse. It's time to decriminalize prostitution, she writes in The Los Angeles Times.… more »