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The Struggle to Protect a Tree at the Heart of Hopi Culture
To Hopi traditionalists—Hopis who practice traditional culture—the humble one-seed juniper tree has deep cultural meaning. Mark Sykes A rumbling, low boom unfurled over the land like a cu…
Thinking about careers outside of the Academy: NIH’s OITE Careers Blog
The American National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a thorough Career Services blog providing a wealth of advice that will be of use for recent grads and graduate students.…
Fighting a silent killer in the slums
By Vera van Rijn Although the media frequently reports on African children dying from malaria or HIV, it is actually pneumonia that is the biggest killer in…
New articles in Discard Studies (July/August)
Since critical discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in…
America Needs Some Perspective
I used to think that Americans like me who had a strong point of view on topics related to positive social change all had some sort of elevated…
Reading #Harvey through a #globaldev lens
In 2013 I posted some readings that I found particularly helpful in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Philippines. Many articles are still relevant in the…
Understanding The Power of Comfort Foods
The comfort food premise may be a very deliberate social construct. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
What a Brown Recluse Spider Has Taught Me
After having recently received a venomous bite by a brown recluse spider in NYC, I’ve spent some time researching my arachnid attacker and discovering how to recover from the…
Why the Famous Folsom Point Isn’t a Smoking Gun
Remember the iconic Folsom point? The one that I said, in my last post, changed the future of archaeology? To recap: On August 29, 1927, paleontologists from the…
Patricia Sloane-White, “Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
The relationship between religion and economic activity has attracted generations of scholars working in myriad settings. In recent years, many have turned to questions of how Islamic ideas…
What do Cultural Anthropologists do? "Decode" Human Behaviour
According to a recent article (August 3, 2017) in the Financial Post, Martin Birt discusses the work of Johanna Faigelman, CEO and founding partner of Human Branding. In answer…
On Plastic Reason by Tobias Rees by Setrag Manoukian
Plastic Reason: An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms by Tobias Rees University of California Press, 2016, 352 pages Plastic Reason is an excellent occasion to…
anthro in the news 8/27/17
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…
There is no such thing as spaghetti bolognaise: The rights and wrongs of a ragù
Markus Bell Arguably Italy’s most famous dish, certainly the one most likely to appear on the children’s menu in your local family diner, spaghetti bolognaise is globally consumed…
Mengia Hong Tschalaer, “Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice: Gender, Law and Activism in India” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
In her inspiring new book, Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice: Gender, Law and Activism in India (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Mengia Hong Tschalaer charts the strivings and creative…
Guest Post: An Encounter with Basket Traditions in Zanzibar City
I am very happy to here share a guest post by Kurt Dewhurst and Marsha MacDowell of the Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Traditions of handmade, woven…
Review: Selling Local
Selling Local: Why Local Food Movements Matter. Jennifer Meta Robinson and James Robert Farmer. Indiana University Press, 2017. <! Ryan Adams Lycoming College Jennifer Robinson and James Farmer…
Tackling the Elephant in the Room
A Guide to Teaching Race after Charlottesville The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville embodied the ongoing racist ideologies that have permeated the United States since its incepti…
What Would A Muslim Brotherhood State Have Looked Like?
It’s one of the greatest controversies of the revolution: What would the state overseen by Egypt’s President Morsi have looked like if he had not been ousted in…