anthro in the news 9/18/17
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…
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Resources for Understanding Race After Charlottesville
In this time of fake news and alternative facts coming from the White House as well as some media, what can we as scholars contribute to challenge this?…
After 10 years the AAA Race Project is Still Needed Now More Than Ever
By Yolanda T. Moses, University of California Riverside I recently returned from North Carolina Museum of Natural History where the “Race Are We So Different Exhibit” will be…
Charlottesville: Trump, Race and the Logical Utopia/Illogical Dystopia Binary
By K. Nyerere Ture, PhD, Yale University In January 2016, during the Republican primary season, Donald J. Trump, an emergent candidate, characterized his loyal supporters as the smartest Americans…
Resources for Understanding Race After Charlottesville
In this time of fake news and alternative facts coming from the White House as well as some media, what can we as scholars contribute to challenge this?…
Innovative Like Me: Best Practices for Writing Unbiased Job Ads
Below is a post @anthrolens blogger @JennLong3 wrote on LinkedIn. In this post, I write about diversity and bias in Canadian job ads. ————————————————————–…
Review of Richard S. Newman’s “Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present”
Newman’s activists press for environmental change imbedded with critiques of capitalism and industrialization, racial injustice, and its global implications. This view distorts the complexity of histo…
Anticipating Law: The Prognostics of Fear and Hope #LawNet2017
This week Allies will once again be in action – this time at the 2017 EASA LawNet Workshop in Bern on September 19-21! The workshop engages with numerous topical themes…
SHADOW OVER BURMA: THE ROHINGYA CRISIS IN CONTEXT
By Elisa Sandri In late August, alarming reports and harrowing images started to surface from Myanmar. It soon became clear that Rohingya people—a Muslim minority living in a…
Ethnographic experimentation: Other tales of the field #Colleex
Ethnographic experimentation refers to an ethnographic modality where anthropologists venture into the collaborative production of venues for knowledge creation that turn the field into a site for the…
Special Issue! “Diverse Bodies” by Anna Zogas
In case you missed it, here’s a special issue that may be of interest: In Anthropology & Medicine, Diverse Bodies: The Challenge of New Theoretical Approaches to Medical Anthropology.…
On My Shelf: Vita, Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
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Remembering the Mexican Revolution with Aunt Julia
Growing up in Austin, Texas, Diez y Seis — Mexican Independence Day — always seemed to hold an official, albeit minor, status in the state capitol. This was…
Remembering the Mexican Revolution with Aunt Julia
Growing up in Austin, Texas, Diez y Seis — Mexican Independence Day — always seemed to hold an official, albeit minor, status in the state capitol. This was…
Great internet stuff: the not-so-weekly digest (#10)
Presenting another collection of most-highly-recommended articles, websites and ideas that shaped my thinking throughout the past few weeks. This week’s topics include design and user exp…
Great interview with Jay Murphy on Artaud’s Metamorphosis and more.
Read this super informative interview by clicking on the image below (but be sure to still buy the book as there is much more good stuff there) Filed…
How Vulnerable Are We to Collapse?
Research findings on three early Native American cultures from the southwestern United States show how each responded to environmental challenges in different ways that dramatically altered their…
Links & Contents I Liked 250
Hi all, Link review #250 should be an occasion to pause and reflect for a moment-just not this week which is far from over yet and it has…
A Letter from Colombia in the Aftermath of Charlottesville
By Angela J. Lederach and Jeffrey S. Yoder As we near the end of our stay in Montes de María, we wanted to send a final reflection. Over…
How the female Viking warrior was written out of history
What Bj 581, the ‘female Viking warrior’ tells us about assumed gender roles in archaeological inquiry In the 1880s Scandinavian archaeologists unearthed a grave containing all the implements…