Ryan and Adam explore genderless gingerbread cookies in Australia – do these cookies reveal something about shifting gender paradigms? Also, we explore a bit about how and why…
Greetings from Naples. Photo by Maurizio Albahari. Pope Francis for President. It’s the latest provocation of Italian comedy sketches, but it generates bitter laughter. It speaks to the…
For this cultural critic, it is interesting to consider what was left unsaid during SOTU’s repartee of call and response. Here are a few issues that are perhaps…
For this cultural critic, it is interesting to consider what was left unsaid during SOTU’s repartee of call and response. Here are a few issues that are perhaps…
Written by Brent Strickland and Pierre Jacob In a recent review paper in Science (2014. 344-6190) entitled “The cultural evolution of mind reading,” Cecilia Heyes and Chris Frith argue…
The State of the Union (SOTU) address is a striking example of dramatic political theater that features mythic rhetoric in a lofty setting. It is certainly compelling to…
For this cultural critic, it is interesting to consider what was left unsaid during SOTU’s repartee of call and response. Here are a few issues that are perhaps…
For this cultural critic, it is interesting to consider what was left unsaid during SOTU’s repartee of call and response. Here are a few issues that are perhaps…
For this cultural critic, it is interesting to consider what was left unsaid during SOTU’s repartee of call and response. Here are a few issues that are perhaps…
For this cultural critic, it is interesting to consider what was left unsaid during SOTU’s repartee of call and response. Here are a few issues that are perhaps…
For this cultural critic, it is interesting to consider what was left unsaid during SOTU’s repartee of call and response. Here are a few issues that are perhaps…
For this cultural critic, it is interesting to consider what was left unsaid during SOTU’s repartee of call and response. Here are a few issues that are perhaps…
In the years I have been doing ethnographic research, I have found that some ethnographers have a tendency to avoid researching issues that involve deep immersion. Clearly,…
Perspectives in Anthropology welcomes you to explore our new Lecture Series where you can discover a wide range of topics, each with a unique perspective and interpretation.…
Update Nov. 2016: Call for papers now open for InDigital Latin America II at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March 16-18, 2017 A cartoon by Gary Larson from 1984…
Update Nov. 2016: Call for papers now open for InDigital Latin America II at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March 16-18, 2017 A cartoon by Gary Larson from 1984…
Update Nov. 2016: Call for papers now open for InDigital Latin America II at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March 16-18, 2017 A cartoon by Gary Larson from 1984…
Update Nov. 2016: Call for papers now open for InDigital Latin America II at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March 16-18, 2017 A cartoon by Gary Larson from 1984…
When Jacky was deported from the USA to Cape Verde, his life came to a sudden standstill. Within a short time his face grew deep wrinkles; it looked…
When the first Pride Parade in Montenegro’s capital turned into a battlefield, early ethnographic accounts about traditional manliness may have had a part to play in the tensi…
Following on from my post last year, here is a list of theses (Masters and PhD) published in anthropology departments in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2014. My list…
According to anthropologist Barbara King, one alternative to the 2014 Merriam-Webster Dictionary word of the year “culture” is “privilege.” For the political anthropologist, Pr…
Biological Anthropologist Julienne Rutherford has a fascinating talk available online that is a short but nice overview of the effect of epigenetics from womb to womb. Essentially she discusses…
Biological Anthropologist Julienne Rutherford has a fascinating talk available online that is a short but nice overview of the effect of epigenetics from womb to womb. Essentially she discusses…