Hugh Gusterson, associate professor of anthropology at MIT, Anthropology News (AAA) November
When anthropology was established as a discipline in the early 20th century the relationship between magic, science and religion was one of its central preocc… more »
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RedNova reviews two books:
Women and Race in Early Modern Texts. By Joyce Green MacDonald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix + 188 pages.
English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama. By Mary Floyd- Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge Un… more »
The Daily Telegraph
Millions of pounds are wasted each year because few understand the secret language of giving Christmas gifts. Why do we go through with it? Because the Christmas present is about kinship and power; taste and insight; symbolism and… more »
by lorenz on Oct 15, 2004 in ecology nature, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, persons and theories
Eurek Alert
University of Maine anthropology and marine sciences professor James Acheson has been named the 2004 winner of the American Anthropological Association's Kimball award for effecting change in public policy. Acheson will receive the Award a… more »
The Guardian
Virtually every area of humanistic scholarship and artistic activity in the latter part of the 20th century felt the influence of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who has died aged 74 from pancreatic cancer.
"Deconstruction", th… more »
TownOnline.com
A team of researchers from several fields at the University of Michigan is launching a study of why people laugh at cartoons. Come on, guys: Because they're funny! That's not good enough for the psychologists, linguists, anthropologists… more »
BBC
A new sign language created over the last 30 years by deaf children in Nicaragua has given experts a unique insight into how languages evolve. The language follows many basic rules common to all tongues, even though the children were not taught th… more »
Washington Post
A hundred social scientists and geneticists gathered this week in Alexandria to sort out the meaning of race, and didn't, quite. When Leith Mullings, an anthropologist from the City University of New York, sardonically said that "only… more »
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