Tag: Anthro in the Media
Anne Kelsey , June 22nd, 2016
This month, major cities throughout the U.S. will hold annual gay pride events: parades followed by parties throughout the night and weekend. These kinds of celebrations – for…
Anne Kelsey , May 16th, 2016
In 2012, the Associated Press released a news report titled “NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast.” In the article, we learn that the New York City police…
Anne Kelsey , May 10th, 2016
“He’s been shot, you have to go to him. Tell him mom is on the way!” is all I heard as I answered a phone call from my…
Anne Kelsey , April 19th, 2016
Claim our bodies, claim our right, Take a stand, take back the night! Across the globe, the month of April is a time for communities to mobilize Take…
Anne Kelsey , February 28th, 2016
I can’t remember the last movie I watched in an actual movie theater. Some of that is because I find the dramatic TV serial so much more powerful…
Anne Kelsey , November 25th, 2015
In Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks, Jenny White (2014:198) argues, “In the Gezi clashes, a new generation of citizens, whose expectations have been shaped by twenty-first-century global…
Anne Kelsey , November 12th, 2015
AAA reached out to documentary filmmaker Seth Kramer to discuss his upcoming film The Anthropologist. At the core of The Anthropologist are the parallel stories of two women:…
Anne Kelsey , November 10th, 2015
This Veterans Day, Americans will celebrate the sacrifice and heroism of those who served in uniform from World War I to the most recent wars in Iraq and…
Andrew R , September 29th, 2015
This has been an amazing year for submissions to the annual photo contest– and we’re not done yet! There’s still time to submit your photos for consideration of…
Andrew R , September 14th, 2015
The AAA welcomes back Agustin Fuentes for another Webinar Wednesday, this time joined by Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. Please note our different time this week: 11 AM Eastern. Utilizing…
Anne Kelsey , July 16th, 2015
On the evening of June 17th, the murder of nine African Americans took place at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. My Rachel Dolezal post was…
Anne Kelsey , July 13th, 2015
The following post was submitted by Hugh Gusterson, a professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University. A specialist on nuclear culture, the political economy of…
Anne Kelsey , July 8th, 2015
The following post was submitted by Elisa (EJ) Sobo, Professor of Anthropology, San Diego State University. The New York Times recently featured an op-ed piece titled ‘Academics seek…
Anne Kelsey , June 22nd, 2015
The following post was written by AAA members Susan D. Blum, Netta Avineri, and Eric J. Johnson in response to a recent article in the Washington Post. Read…
jmartin7647 , June 18th, 2015
Recent news surrounding Rachel Dolezal has led to quite the discussion on race. Our associates at the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) pointed us to an article (‘You May…
Andrew R , May 11th, 2015
The AAA Photo Contest returns again this year, and submission are open to all active AAA members, submit here! “By the End of a Day” from Ming Xue,…
Andrew R , May 7th, 2015
Hello anthropology enthusiasts! Our next webinar, with Larissa Sandy, will be the last scheduled before we take a break for the summer. In it we’ll be exploring the…
Andrew R , April 30th, 2015
Hope you all enjoyed your webinar hiatus (and Call for Papers period) because we’ve got two more amazing webinars coming your way before we break for the summer!…
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Anne Kelsey , July 7th, 2016
Shaka McGlotten is Associate Professor of media, society and the arts at Purchase College-SUNY and Co-Chair of the Association for Queer Anthropology. Before I left for my summer…
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