Author: Culture In Global Affairs

Kutupalong, the world’s fastest growing refugee camp, is located in Bangladesh’s Chittagong province. Credit: U.K. Department for International Development/Flickr [no changes were made to this photo] …

Goldfish Glitter Goldfish Glitter goodbye to glitter  CNN and several media covered a proposed ban on glitter in the U.K. Most glitters are microplastics, known as hazardous to…

Grassy Narrows, Ontario, 2006. Credit: Howl Arts Collective/Creative Commons a crime against humanity Scales of justice. Credit: Pixabay The Toronto Star published commentary co-authored by Stephen Be…

Joanne Hammond started an online campaign to rewrite “stops of interest” signs to include precolonial and Indigenous history. She is one of the first contributors to Culturally Modified.…

Chitimacha baskets from Louisiana. Credit: National Museum of the American Indian, Joseph Keppler Collection, gift of Dr. Margaret J. Sharpe. http://tinyurl.com/y9zbwwt4 ancestry rights and wrongs Th…

Credit: Pixabay the casting couch The Guardian published commentary by David Graeber, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, about his awakening to the pervasiveness of…

Elia Fester & children, Kalahari Khomani San Bushman, Boesmansrus camp, Northern Cape, South Africa. credit: South African Tourism maintaining minimalism and equality The Guardian published a pie…

Credit: Pixabay/Creative Commons clarifying the “Nuclear Deal” The Huffington Post published commentary by William O. Beeman, professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, cla…

School girl, India. Credit: Google Images Commons/Pexels. educated brides sought, but not working wives Japan Today published an opinion piece co-authored by cultural anthropologist Rachael Goodman, p…

Territories of the United States. Credit: Wikipedia colonies of the U.S. The Washington Post published a piece by David Vine, associate professor of anthropology at American University. He…

SDSU anthropologist Matthew Lauer with local fishermen (Credit: Matthew Lauer) San Diego State University anthropologist Matthew Lauer is teaming up with scientists and islanders alike to figure out…

“I would say that a surprisingly large number of my students at MIT are juniors and seniors, and they often say to me, ‘Oh, I wish I had…

Don and Kim: Things in Common. Credit: Frank Fenemma, 2017. Commons Wikipedia/Flickr nuclear orientalism The Ramapo News (Suffern, New York) published an op-ed about U.S.-North Korea relations which…

Caption and credit: An anti-Uber demonstration in London, 2014. Credit: David Holt/Flickr. Written by: Sean Carey “Do you think Uber will close?” asked Mr. Uddin, a worried 52-year-old…

Money. Credit: Pixabay/Creative Commons. disaster capitalism The Sun Sentinel (Florida) published commentary by Yarimar Bonilla, associate professor of anthropology and Caribbean studies at Rutgers U…

Scene in Bangladesh. Credit: Wikipedia water problems and cholera alert  The Conversation published commentary by medical anthropologist Lauren Carruth, assistant professor in the School of Internatio…

Super Mario games follow player character Mario’s adventures in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom. Credit: Pixabay. games, technology, and nostalgia CNBC reported on the revival of some classic vid…

The port of Houston, 2000. Credit: U.S. Coast Guard, PA2 James Dillard/Wikimedia Commons foregrounding climate justice The Huffington Post published a piece, prompted by Hurricane Harvey and calling…

Credit: Pixabay when the court jester is president  The Conversation published commentary by Anthony J Pickles, British Academy Research Fellow in the Division of Social Anthropology at the…

Sunset on Guam. Yuki Yagimura/Wikpedia Commons peril in paradise KCET TV (California) broadcast a program about growing resistance in Guam to the U.S. military presence there. It includes…

Closed due to heat wave. Credit: MTSOfan/Flickr summer in the city The Conversation published an article on heat waves, urban life, and social inequality by Merrill Singer, professor…

Credit: Canadian Liver Foundation/Google Images Commons. undetected, untreated, deadly The Washington Post published an article co-authored by medical anthropologist Paul Farmer, the Kolokotrones Univ…

University of Wisconsin students protesting Trump’s presidency and proposed policies. Credit: The Badger Herald/Google Images Commons. run for it: anthropologists in politics The Huffington Pos…