anthro in the news 2/8/16
On eliminating Valentine’s Day in U.S. public schools According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, many schools in the Minneapolis area will not be marking Valentine’s Day or many…
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anthro in the news 2/8/2016
On eliminating Valentine’s Day in U.S. public schools According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, many schools in the Minneapolis area will not be marking Valentine’s Day or many…
anthro in the news 2/1/2016
Source: Creative Commons U.S. football violence Cultural anthropologist William Murphy, lecturer in the department of anthropology at Northwestern University, published an op-ed in the Chicago Sun Ti…
anthro in the news 1/25/2016
Eritrea landscape. Source: Creative Commons Misguided U.K. asylum policy As described in an article in the Guardian, John Campbell, reader in the anthropology of Africa and law…
Sam Beck’s book frames anthropology as a means of change
By Susan Kelley, Republished with Permission from Cornell Chronicle Sam Beck, senior lecturer in the College of Human Ecology, has co-edited a new volume on the theory and practice…
anthro in the news 1/18/16
Source: Google Images/Creative Commons Autism that can kill Kim Shively, professor of cultural anthropology at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, published an article in the Morning Call (All…
anthro in the news 1/11/16
Buy a kidney, exploit the poor and desperate Washington Post published a weekly “In Theory” piece by medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes of the University of California at Berkeley.…
anthro in the news 1/4/16
Sidney Mintz: Founder of the anthropology of food Cultural anthropologist Sarah Hill, associate professor at Western Michigan University, published an article in the Boston Review detailing the work…
Interview with Tijo Salverda
By Madhukar Ramlallah, editor of the Mauritius Times [with permission from the Mauritius Times] ‘Franco-Mauritians have realised that their economic power is best served by staying away from…
anthro in the news 12/28/2015
Source: Google Images/Creative Commons To address ISIS, social science essential Two social scientists at the University of Oxford,, one a social anthropologist and the other an economist, co-authore…
anthro in the news 12/21/2015
Source: Google Images/Creative Commons Syrian refugees in poverty Marketplace (American Public Media) published a piece on the dire economic situation of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon….
Fifty mosques in Tower Hamlets: Religion, modernity, and postmodernity
Tower Hamlets, one of the most ethnically diverse zones in Europe. Source: Wikipedia By Sean Carey According to nineteenth century anthropologists, religion would disappear with modernity, supplanted …
Why we can’t look away
By Kathryn Dudley, Reprinted with permission from the Yale Daily News As students across the country protest institutionalized racism, many commentators have tried to explain what is happening on coll…
anthro in the news 12/14/2015
On refugee-phobia Pilapa Esara Carroll, associate professor of anthropology at the College at Brockport of the State University of New York, co-authored an op-ed in the Democrat and…
The ‘wall of virtue’ that surrounds followers of Isis will not be broken down by bombing Syria
by Sean Carey Source: The Tablet “Sectarianism involves strong feelings, deep resentment, a searing sense of injustice, above all, anger,” explained renowned British social anthropologist …
anthro in the news 12/7/2015
A view of Mauna Loa taken from a Pu'u near The Onizuka Center for International Astronomy Visitor Information Station at Mauna Kea. source: Wikipedia Saying no to…
anthro in the news 11/30/2015
ISIS recruits through friends and social media An article in the New York Times on ISIS recruitment provides extensive commentary from cultural anthropologist Scott Atran, co-founder of the…
anthro in the news 11/23/2015
As of November 21, Brussels was on high alert for a possible terrorist attack. source: Smirnoff, Creative Commons What does ISIS want? CBS (Minnesota) carried a brief…
anthro in the news 11/16/15
France as terrorist target ATTN (France) published an article documenting recent terrorist attacks in France along with commentary from cultural anthropologist John Bowen’s article in Time. Ja…
anthro in the news 11/9/2015
Enset is a survivor when other plants die. credit: DW/J. Brewer A traditional African food crop is money in the bank An article Deutsche Welle described the…
anthro in the news 11/2/2015
Caption: Arizona desert. source: Creative Commons The killing field of Arizona Pacifica Public Radio [U.S.] aired a piece on the implications of the election of Republican Paul Ryan…
anthro in the news 10/26/2015
source: NPR Happy slaves? A piece on National Public Radio (U.S.) reported on how the coconut industry in Thailand thrives on the use of the labor of trained…
anthro in the news 10/19/2015
source: The Independent Muslim refugees and culture talk The Independent (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) carried an article about Canada’s failure to help with the current Middle East…
Time for tobacco-state politicians to make ‘adult choice’ on Pacific trade agreement
By Gerry Everding If Republican senators from tobacco-growing southern states believe in social responsibility, they would fully explore the TransPacific (TPP) trade agreement’s potential impact on co…