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(via anthropologyworks) British-Canadian anthropologist Robert Paine died at the age of 84. Eveybody who's interested in the Northern and Polar areas will know his name. He sent his most recent article for publication just weeks ago. Last year his… more »

A month before his 101.birthday, Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the most influential anthropologists, died at the age of 100. He died over the weekend, according to the office of the president of the School for the Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, in Pa… more »

How to deal with "mental illness"? Are people who are labelled ill actually ill? Is it ok that psychologists call "adolescent rebellion" for “Oppositional Defiant Disorder”? What is anthropologists' role here? Eugenia Tsao discusses these questions in an… more »

Inspired by a lecture by Peter Geschiere, anthropologist Yara El-Ghadban discusses a difficult and central question in our discipline: How to deconstruct a notion without destroying the meaning that it has for people? In order to challenge stereotypi… more »

Shortly after I wrote about Olivia Harris' death I was informed about the death of medical anthropologist Cecil Helman. Helman was both anthropologist, doctor and poet. He combined both clinical and anthropological perspectives on a variety of issues… more »

One of antropologi.info's readers alerted me to the death of anthropologist Olivia Harris. She died suddenly of cancer aged 60 on the morning of 9th April. Harris is the co-founder of the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths College (also Universit… more »

During my research for the new overview over open access anthropology journals, I made many great discoveries. I'll try to present some of them. One of the discoveries was Invisible Culture. An electronic journal for visual culture. The most recent is… more »

What impact has war on children? What has anthropology to say on this? This autumn I watched the movie "Buddha collapsed out of shame" by the Iranian film maker Hana Makhmalbaf. It tells the story of children who reproduce the violence of the adults. For… more »