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• Yo-Yo Ma’s anthropological soul
Classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma is, according to an article in the Washington Post, “one of the most recognizable classical musicians on the planet.” Besides being a star of the musical world, he is also a ...
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An article in USA Today points out that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have helped bring science to a wider public by hosting scientists who discuss an issue of importance such as climate change or their new book ...
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• Religion and relief aid in Haiti
BBC carried an article pointing to the low profile of voodoo in the aftermath of the earthquake. Some observers think that Christian organizations are dominating the scene and even denying benefits to Haitians ...
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Today’s Washington Post carried an article called “Big in Japan? Fat chance for nation’s young women.” Among other points, we learn that young women in Japan are slimmer than they were two decades ago. Young men, however, have become heavier.
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Guest post by Helen Caldicott
Ever since white men appeared 200 years ago on the shores of Sydney Harbour in their uniforms, with their guns and flags, the aboriginal people have been hunted, shot at and herded off cliffs and ...
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Guest post by Laura Wilson
The United State Institute of Peace recently presented the second part of its program on The Other Side of Gender: Masculinity Issues in Violent Conflict. Panelists Elisabeth Wood, Professor of Political Science at Yale University, ...
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In honor of International Women’s Day, please join us for this upcoming event at the Elliott School of International Affairs:
Poto Mitan:
Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy
a film screening
a panel discussion following the film with:
Mark ...
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• Ethnography of sexual violence in Peru inspires award-winning documentary
Kimberly Theidon, associate professor of cultural anthropology at Harvard University, is an expert on violence in Peru and especially sexual violence against women. Her book of essays on the subject, ...
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In the United States, cases of invasive cervical cancer have declined in recent decades due to earlier detection through the Pap smear and improved forms of treatment. Significant regional variations exist across the country in mortality rates from cervical cancer, ...
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Tracy Kidder’s widely read documentary book about Paul Farmer’s work in Haiti is called Mountains beyond Mountains. The title comes from a Haitian proverb which is translated into English as: “Beyond the mountains, more mountains.” In other words, every challenge ...
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Having lost his job as a Cultural Resource Management archaeologist working with the Klamath Indians, John Allison posted his cv online and was shortly contacted by the Human Terrain Systems. John had done his doctoral fieldwork in Afghanistan in 1969-70, ...
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The Culture in Global Affairs program is hosting its second event of 2010 this week on Wednesday, February 24. For those in the D.C. area, we would love to have you join us. You can RSVP here.
Conflicts in Israeli ...
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• Stop disaster capitalism in Haiti
Cultural anthropologist Mark Schuller published an update in the Huffington Post on the earthquake damage in Haiti. An assistant professor of African-American Studies and anthropology at York College, the City University of New York, ...
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The Andaman Islands are a string of islands in the Bay of Bengal that belong to India. For unknown numbers of centuries, many of the islands were inhabited by people who fished, gathered and hunted for their livelihood. During the ...
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The Andaman Islands are a string of islands in the Bay of Bengal that belong to India. For unknown numbers of centuries, many of the islands were inhabited by people who fished, gathered and hunted for their livelihood. During the ...
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Losing one’s home has both short-term and long-term negative effects on people. It can disrupt marriages and relationships and produce undesirable behavioral changes in children. The fallout of losing one’s home brings with it the catastrophic loss of investments, dignity, ...
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For those in the D.C. area, The George Washington University Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting are hosting a fascinating event on Monday. Details below:
Afghanistan: The Human Factor
Monday February 22, ...
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A report by Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs and Donna Clifton of the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, DC, provides updated information about the prevalence of female genital cutting (FGC):
“FGM/C is practiced in at least 28 countries in Africa and a few ...
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Please join the Department of Anthropology and the College of Arts and Sciences of American University for the following special event:
The Insecure American: Book Reading and Signing
With co-editor Hugh Gusterson
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• This may not work for everyone
A New York Times article in the Sunday Valentine Day’s edition collates advice (heterosexistly) for men about how to “step up their game” including the possibility of hiring a “pick-up coach” for tips ...
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If you still think that “all Haitians” are trapped in “voodoo worship” please read Laura Wagner’s description of her experiences in Haiti following the earthquake. Laura is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
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What do cultural anthropologists know about love? To mark Valentine’s Day, a widely celebrated occasion in the United States, I did some research. Using the Anthropology Plus database available through my university library, and with love as my only search ...
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The number of research proposals submitted by cultural anthropologists to the U.S. National Science Foundation has risen dramatically in the past few years according to Deborah Winslow in American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology News (Winslow is the cultural anthropology program officer ...
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The following is a message from David Vine, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University:
You can immediately assist the Chagossians by signing the petition by Friday, February 12, to support the rights of the Chagossians and protect the environment ...
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Guest post by Laura Wilson
Some development and humanitarian aid experts now argue that focusing on masculinity and emasculation during a complex emergency, rather than on women and girls, may be more effective at preventing or reducing gender-based violence. On ...
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From the Anthropology in Action network: Call for participants in a panel on public anthropology for a world in Crisis. Sarah Pink (Loughborough University), Simone Abram (Leeds Metropolitan University) and Halvard Vike (University of Oslo) have proposed a panel on ...
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They are both about Haiti. They are both worth reading. In my view, one is the best of op-eds and one is the worst. Please read them and say what you think and why.
Op-ed #1: In the February 7 ...
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• Son of an anthropologist, President Obama also a yuppie
According to an article in the New Republic, one factor contributing to President Barack Obama’s inability to connect with the working class is that he comes from a family of ...
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In the late 1970s, Haiti’s rural population was 80 percent of the total population, while today it is 55 percent. This rapid shift has led to Haiti being “terribly out-of-balance” as Robert Maguire testified (PDF transcript) before the Subcommittee on ...
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Despite an abundance of aid materials and the good intentions of relief agencies, relief efforts in Thailand following the December 2004 earthquake/tsunami were afflicted by skewed distribution.
Jin Sato, associate professor in the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at ...
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Despite the American Anthropological Association’s condemnation of the Human Terrain program, in which anthropologists have been recruited to assist with counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon wants to expand the program. Congress is currently considering the Pentagon’s request ...
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Guest post by Laura Wilson
By focusing attention on a single but critical resource, Jessica Barnes sheds light on the complexities of social, economic, and political change in rural Egypt. The resource is water.
Barnes is currently completing her doctorate ...
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• Paul Farmer on U.S.-Haiti relations
Last Thursday, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing to explore how U.S. foreign aid can best help Haiti. Senator Christopher Dodd (Democrat, Connecticut) suggested that “some sort of receivership,” at least ...
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If Paul Farmer were to have his way, the answer is yes. Farmer–cultural anthropologist, medical doctor, and health advocate for the poor–testified on January 27 at the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on Haiti. Farmer is also now ...
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From the Anthropology in Action listserv:
Proposals sought for books on the anthropology of Europe
The editor of the EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) book series, James G. Carrier, is currently accepting book proposals for the series.
For more ...
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This post is drawn from the remarks made by Robert Maguire, Randolph Jennings senior fellow, United States Institute of Peace, and associate professor of international affairs, Trinity University, Washington, D.C., one of five panelists who spoke at Risk, Suffering and ...
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Anna Miller, a communications and marketing writer for GW’s Medical Center, wrote about the panel I organized on Haiti in her article “A Nation in Crisis: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future.’”
Miller posted her story as ...
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It was a speech for the voters: very much focused on the American people — jobs and health insurance. Only a quick nod near the end to U.S. international humanitarianism. But at least generosity beyond our borders got a nod.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $8.4 million over four years to Boston University’s Center for Global Health and Development to study whether using an antiseptic wash to clean a newborn’s umbilical cord stump, compared to just letting ...
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• Cultural anthropologist on key aspect of Haitian devastation
It’s rare that a cultural anthropologist is quoted on the front page of The New York Times or of any of the mainstream media. So it’s especially noteworthy when it happens. ...
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As you may have heard, New York Times columnist David Brooks recently wrote about how Haiti’s culture is mired down by vodou and is anti-progress. And as you might imagine, his comments drew a lot of criticism from cultural anthropologists ...
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No pill can cure poverty. This is an old truth but one that needs repeating. Again and again. An article in the prestigious American Journal of Public Health (reprints can be ordered at the journal’s website) reminds me of this ...
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In organizing this panel, I reached out to many people who in turn connected me with yet others. Many of the people I contacted were in Haiti at the time, just returning from Haiti, or on their way there and ...
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Many people would argue that the journal, World Development, is one of the most pre-eminent publications in the field of development. Knowing that, I decided to search it for articles on Haiti. My search resulted in two articles that actually ...
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• Symbols of trauma and spirituality in ruins in Haiti
Rebuilding symbolic structures and spaces are an important part of helping Haiti recover from the earthquake disaster. In Port-au-Prince, the National Cathedral, the presidential palace, the parliament building, the United ...
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In rural Haiti, before entering anyone’s yard, one calls out : “Onè! (Honor!), waiting to hear the welcome, “Respe!” (Respect) before entering. Cultural anthropologist Jennie Smith-Paríolá did long term fieldwork with “peasant” groups in Haiti’s Northeast, Central Plateau, and Grand ...
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Guest Post by Samuel Martínez
David Brooks’ New York Times op-ed, “The Underlying Tragedy,” debates a major truth: there is no such thing as a “natural disaster,” only natural adversities for which humans are better or worse prepared to cope. ...
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This list is intended to provide a guide to recent resources on culture and society in Haiti for people who wish to be better informed about the context in which the recent earthquake and its devastation are occurring. With apologies, ...
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For those of you in the D.C. area, our friends at the GW Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES) are hosting a very interesting talk next week:
IMES Research Colloquium
Theological Jihad in Osama Bin Laden’s Audiotape Library
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From the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA):
The U.S. Census Bureau seeks up to 18 ethnographers to conduct short-term paid contract research for 4-6 months during Census 2010 data collection operations. The study aims to address the issue of ...
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UPDATE 1/14: This post was linked in a story by Discovery News’ James Williams.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the island of Hispaniola. Following the island’s discovery by Columbus in 1492, Spanish colonialists exterminated the island’s indigenous Arawak Indians. ...
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The attempt on Christmas day of the so-called underwear bomber to blow up a plane on its way to Detroit has raised worldwide concern about passenger no-fly lists, increased airport security checks, and civil liberties. Two recent survey-based studies conducted ...
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• Tell it to the Marines
NPR aired an interview with cultural anthropologist Paula Holmes-Eber who teaches “operational culture” at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia. Classes include discussion of cultural sensitivity and the cultural/social consequences of military presence and ...
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The Tenderloin is the poorest neighborhood in San Francisco. Some of its poorest residents are immigrants who come from the poorest regions of Yemen. Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world.
Ninety percent of Yemeni immigrants to ...
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From the official website of the Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, published by the University of Bucharest Departments of Sociology and Social Work:
The Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology invites articles, research notes, and ...
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An editorial in Nature argues that funding is meager for research on psychiatric diseases compared to that for other major diseases. Focusing just on schizophrenia, new directions for the upcoming decade include: considering why the efficacy of medications has not ...
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• Muslim-Hindu punk rock and immigrant identity
“With this music I can express my confusion,” says Marwan Kamel, lead-guitarist in Chicago-based Al Thawra, one of the emerging punk rock groups composed of first generation immigrants of Middle Eastern and South ...
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The downsides of a “modern” Western agro-industrial diet of starchy, sugary, processed foods are well-known thanks to the writings and activism of many food-wise non-scientists such as Michael Pollan, Alice Waters and Jamie Oliver. Their advice to eat fresh, locally ...
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As any cultural anthropologist will tell you, a decade is an arbitrary cultural construction with no inherent meaning. I agree. But it does offer a potentially interesting way to bracket a period of time within which a lot happens but ...
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In many cultures, the human body is not good enough as it is: it requires remodeling and marking of various types. Tattoos, piercing, scarification and other forms of bodily modification are widespread across contemporary human cultures, and they have long ...
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The following list was determined by a panel of one, though, as you can see, many of the choices are externally validated. Congratulations to one and all!
Best Student Essays in Public Anthropology: The public anthropology award winners of 2009 ...
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UPDATE: The following essay has been slightly revised to take into account a reader’s correction.
Should we be on tip-toes waiting for big business to save the earth? How long can we hold that pose? My feet hurt already.
Jared ...
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My scan of “Dissertation Abstracts International” (not an international list by any means, but mainly U.S.) for 2009 dissertations in cultural anthropology was both heart-warming and heart-breaking. The good news is that so many excellent dissertations were completed in 2009. ...
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This blog came into being in late August 2009. Four months later, about 1,000 people visit per month from 70 countries. The United States provides the largest number, about half. Of those, most live in and around Washington, D.C. Canada ...
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• Mexican national award to U.S. anthropology professor
Antonio N. Zavaleta, professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, received the Premio Otli Award. It is given by the Mexican government to non-Mexican citizens ...
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Chagas disease affects 8 – 10 million people in the Americas. Previously limited to the rural poor, it is spreading to the poor of urban areas. A qualitative, interview-based study (PDF file) of five per-urban communities of Arequipa shows that ...
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After President Obama’s visit to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, I sent out a tweet on December 10 saying his speech was dynamite, but that I wished he had taken Anthropology 101 so he would know that war ...
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Here’s a call for essays on a great topic from a GW journal, courtesy of Long Road blog:
Anthropological Quarterly is seeking submissions for a special issue exploring “piracy” defined broadly, from copying CDs to Captain Hook, from biopiracy to ...
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Anthropology is an essential part of everyone’s education today, according to comments in an article about “foreignness” in the special holiday double edition of the Economist.
Why is anthropology so important now? Because more people than ever are “foreigners” for ...
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According to the World Health Organization, the Asia-Pacific region is one of the highest risk areas for the emergence of new infectious diseases. Factors such as dense rural populations living in close proximity to animals and dense urban housing are ...
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• Cultural anthropologist wins national award in Australia
A book critiquing public policy toward Australia’s aborigines over several decades has won the Manning Clark House Cultural Award 2009. The awardee is Peter Sutton, a cultural anthropologist and linguist and senior ...
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Farming women hold up more than half the sky in rural Senegal. Olga Linares, a researcher with the Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Institute in Panama, has been doing fieldwork in three regions of Senegal for 40 years. She has witnessed many ...
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From the Somatosphere blog:
Each year for the past ten years or so McGill’s Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry has hosted an Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry. The Institute includes a series of month-long courses on cultural psychiatry, ...
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In the past few years, epidemic events, both actual and virtual, have made a spectacular comeback. Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases such as avian and swine flu have generated great anxiety the world over, resulting in a pervasive sense of ...
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by Barbara Miller
A category of local conflict in Peru is called conflictos mineros, mining conflicts. The existence of this specific term reflects the frequency of such conflicts in Peru following neoliberal economic reforms in the early 1990s. Fabiana Li, ...
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• Anthropologists to help the US military in war?
Two cultural anthropologists who have been critics of the Human Terrain System since its beginning hold firm to their conviction that anthropologists should not participate in war efforts. Furthermore, Hugh Gusterson, ...
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The Practicing Anthropologist Student Association at the University of Maryland, College Park is excited to present an upcoming conference!
“Anthroplus: Collaborative Endeavors and Emerging Trends” will be held Saturday, March 06, 2010 at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union at ...
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by Barbara Miller
Rumors about end-of-life policies in the US health care reform debate of 2009 loomed large, enflaming talk about “death panels” that would “pull the plug on grandma.”Anyone who seeks to be informed about alternatives to the current ...
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Come join members of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists Steering Committee as they discuss their new book The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society next Sunday at the Shirlington Library, with a signing to follow at Busboys and ...
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• Bolivian anthropologist quoted on indigenous politics
In an article about the popularity of Evo Morales in Bolivia, the New York Times points to evidence of growing rivalries and dissatisfaction with him from other indigenous political leaders. Riccardo Calla, an ...
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by Barbara Miller
Food is a hot and rising topic in cultural anthropology, related fields from literature to political science, and in popular culture as well. Besides the wealth of publications about food in recent years and a spike in ...
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The prehistory tends to favor elites. Ancient Maya iconography, writing, and artifacts reveal much about the ruling class, warfare, and elite rituals in Mesoamerica. A recent discovery of extensive mural paintings at Calakmul, located in southern Mexico near the Guatemalan ...
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by Barbara Miller
Whoever was in charge of protecting the Obamas at their first state dinner made several mistakes, including what might be called reverse profiling. A striking blond, white woman in a glittering red and gold lehenga-style sari, along ...
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• Publication of Ann Dunham’s revised dissertation
Working with the American Anthropological Association, Duke University Press has published “Surviving against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia,” a revision of Ann Dunham’s doctoral dissertation in anthropology. President Obama’s mother was trained ...
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Virtual worlds research can provide insights into important social questions such as racism and ethnic discrimination. An exploratory study of a “Muslim” avatar in Second Life provides intriguing findings that beg for more in-depth research.
Methal Mohammed teaches English as ...
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• LSE anthropologist wins Victor Turner Award
Dr. Matthew Engelke, a senior lecturer (professor) in the Department of Anthropology of the London School of Economics, has won the 2009 Victor Turner Prize for his book, A Problem of Presence: Beyond ...
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From Bono to a college student who takes an alternative spring break to help people living in poverty, interest and participation in development-related activities has increased among non-specialists in the past decade. Philanthropists, students at many levels, and people in ...
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For those readers in the D.C. area, please join us for the final Culture in Global Affairs program talk of the year.
Sharia and Gender
in the Malay-Muslim Corporate Workplace
Patricia Sloane-White, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Delaware
This ...
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• More on Lévi-Strauss
Tributes to Claude Lévi-Strauss continued to appear in mainstream media worldwide such as the Times of India and the Economist, extolling his contribution to the discipline of anthropology. In my comments last week, I joined the ...
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by Barbara Miller
Poet and political activist Irom Chanu Sharmila has been protesting abuses by Indian military forces in Manipur, northeastern India, for ten years. Fasting unto death is her chosen, nonviolent method of protest. Indian law however now rules ...
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by Barbara Miller
Metal music fans in France are no more anxious or depressed than the general population, in fact, they are somewhat less so. Fewer than 5 percent of the 333 fans in a recent study have pathological symptoms, ...
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• Tristes tropes for a “towering” anthropologist
The French anthropologist who established the theory of “structuralism” outlived most other prominent anthropologists of his era. Claude Lévi-Strauss died over the weekend in Paris at the age of one hundred years. He ...
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by Barbara Miller
The lead article in the International section of the Sunday New York Times was entitled “Thirsty Plant Steals Water in Yemen–Farmers Grow Narcotic: Drought Fuels Conflict.” Lots to attract readers from environmental concerns to drugs and conflict. ...
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Local governments in the Republic of Korea that earn the most local revenue from the tobacco consumption tax (TCT) are less likely to participate in the central government’s anti-smoking campaign. Statistical analysis of data on 163 municipalities revealed a clear ...
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by Barbara Miller
Dr. Lewis Wall is dedicating his life to repairing obstetric fistulas of women in Africa. Nicholas Kristof, who has been writing about fistulas since 2002, lauds him for his work, as we all should.
Dr. Wall is ...
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• The recession and polygyny: lessons from Inner Asia?
In Russia, there are 9 million fewer men than women. The “man shortage” is created by war, alcoholism and economic migration. The Guardian highlighted research on this topic by cultural anthropologist ...
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As part of the continuing Culture in Global Affairs program at the Elliott School, please join us for a talk tomorrow with Dr. Frances Norwood of the Inclusion Research Institute.
Euthanasia, Social Death and U.S. Health Care Reform: Policy Lessons ...
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by Barbara Miller
A loud and hopeful buzz on twitter about toilets and women’s empower in India has followed the publication of an article in the Washington Post on October 12 that has been picked up by CNN and other ...
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by Barbara Miller
Babylon has had its ups and downs over many hundreds of years. It is currently in a down phase thanks to the US war and occupation.
Located on the Euphrates River, about an hour’s drive south of ...
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• Missing link media star fades
The much-hyped fossil nicknamed “Ida,” discovered in May 2009 was the subject of a rapidly produced book and television show about her place in prehistory as a “missing link” in the human-primate line. More ...
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