Author: Culture In Global Affairs

The three sisters: beans, corn, and squash. Credit: nativeamericans.mrdonn.org reclaiming Native food sovereignty The Santa Fe New Mexican carried an article about the movement to reclaim Native North…

Stop them before they stop us – Bumper stickers on a car in Austin, Texas, 2016. Credit: Lars Plougmann/Flickr ethics of AI weapons research The Guardian reported that…

Coca-Cola, Mexican death sentence [left]. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Infant formula as a death threat [right]. Credit: Photo-shopped from the original image on Wikimedia Commons by Jack Heaton corpora…

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo. He is the author of numerous books, including Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual History; Ethnicity and Nationalism; A…

Relatives of the soccer team members and the coach pray at a shrine for their rescue. Credit: Sakchai Lalit/Associated Press a goddess is watching over them As reported…

A collective wedding party organized by Al Afaf, a charitable organization. Credit: Al Afaf/The Jordan Times marriage crisis in Jordan The Jordan Times reported on the several challenges…

How about gun control for the military and/or racist police? Credit: PosterBoy/Flickr police killings: collateral damage National Public Radio (U.S.) reported on a study published in The Lancet…

Tape magic. Credit: frankieleon/Flickr a bullshit job might actually be important An article in The Washington Post connected sociocultural anthropologist David Graeber’s latest book, Bullshit Jobs, …

The lights of Tucson. Credit: Bill Morrow/Flickr climate-change migrants in the U.S. The Arizona Daily Star reported on the trend of internal migration from coastal areas of California…

Bikini Bottom. Credit: Encyclopedia Spongebobia Bikini Bottom matters: More than SpongeBob The Conversation (U.S.) published commentary by Holly M. Barker, senior lecturer in anthropology at the Univ…

Bullshit Jobs in the news The latest book by David Graeber, London School of Economics anthropology professor book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, was published May 15 and is…

HTTPS://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/THOMASHAWK/ anthropology in and for everyday life A panel discussion on Maine Public radio included four anthropologists explaining how anthropology is part of our every…

Flood damage along the Choluteca River caused by Hurricane Mitch. Credit: NOAA/Flickr. immigration policy in the U.S. The New York Daily News carried an article about the Trump…

The ring. Credit Charley Marley/Flickr sexism and the sumo ring The Japan Times reported on current debates in Japan about the origins of the rule against women in…

Shinonome-riken Canal Court housing, Tokyo. Source: Pinterest what lurks behind the door Oxy (California) reported on the role of beliefs about the dead in affecting rent prices in…

Bison Truck! Central San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, 2016. Credit: Joey Zanotti/Flickr the damage humans do Several media, including  NBC News, reported on a study of the correlation…

encounters in anthropology A triple book review in the New York Times looks at Katherine Verdery’s latest book, My Life as a Spy, and reflects on it in…

Plate scraping. Credit: jbloom/Flickr reducing food waste Tri-States Public Radio (U.S.) reported on how the Food Recovery Network aims to reduce food wasted in college cafeterias. Food Recovery…

Cheapest guns in USA! Union, West Virginia. Credit: Taber Andrew Bain/Flickr the social life of guns The Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester) reported on a symposium held in Rochester,…

Professor Marin Pilloud breaks down what forensic anthropologists do and what education they need. Forensic anthropologists are tasked with examining human skeletal remains in a medicolegal context. …

Prof. Emeritus Anthony Oliver-Smith, anthropology, University of Florida, explores ways to study natural disasters during a lecture on Wednesday.Vas Mathur / Sun Staff Photographer Natural disasters m…