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Cultural Anthropology 2013: Human Nature & Public Debates

It was a great honor and privilege to be invited to deliver the Cultural Anthropology overview for the Five Fields Update sponsored by the Society for Anthropology in…

Post date 1st January 2014
Post author By Jason Antrosio

Regulatory traits: Cultural Influences on Cultural Evolution

Post date 1st January 2014
Post author By Alberto Acerbi

On The Journal of Folklore Research in 2013

2013 was a very busy year for me. It was a great year, but it was overly full at work and so-called work-life balance thus was not much…

Post date 31st December 2013
Post author By Jason Baird Jackson

When anthro research and the media collide…

…you can get a flurry of inaccurate headlines, followed by further media analysis pieces that take as their starting point those headlines rather than the underlying research. Especially in…

Post date 30th December 2013
Post author By Nik Pollinger @digitalanthro

When anthro research and the media collide…

…you can get a flurry of inaccurate headlines, followed by further media analysis pieces that take as their starting point those headlines rather than the underlying research. Especially in…

Post date 30th December 2013
Post author By Nik Pollinger @digitalanthro

When anthro research and the media collide…

…you can get a flurry of inaccurate headlines, followed by further media analysis pieces that take as their starting point those headlines rather than the underlying research. Especially in…

Post date 30th December 2013
Post author By Nik Pollinger @digitalanthro

When anthro research and the media collide…

…you can get a flurry of inaccurate headlines, followed by further media analysis pieces that take as their starting point those headlines rather than the underlying research. Especially in…

Post date 30th December 2013
Post author By Nik Pollinger @digitalanthro

Michael J. Hathaway, “Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China”

[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] Globalization is locally specific: global connectivity looks different from place to place. Given that, how are global connections made? And why do ……

Post date 28th December 2013
Post author By Carla Nappi

Michael J. Hathaway, “Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China” (University of California Press, 2013)

Globalization is locally specific: global connectivity looks different from place to place. Given that, how are global connections made? And why do they happen so differently in different…

Post date 28th December 2013
Post author By Carla Nappi

Jennie Burnet, “Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda”

[Cross-posted from New Books in Genocide Studies] In our fast-paced world, it is easy to move from one crisis to another. Conflicts loom in rapid succession, problems demand solutions (or…

Post date 27th December 2013
Post author By Kelly McFall

Jennie Burnet, “Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)

In our fast-paced world, it is easy to move from one crisis to another. Conflicts loom in rapid succession, problems demand solutions (or at least analysis) and impending…

Post date 27th December 2013
Post author By Marshall Poe