Tag: anthro in the news

Trump’s chimp-style displays A chimpanzee at the Taronga Zoo, Sydney, as Jane Goodall gives a press conference. Source: Getty Images/Jan Waldie Several media, including The Huffington Post, reported…

Having no remains of loved ones adds to the loss Memory site. Source: Creative Commons/Pixabay NBC News reported about the ongoing grief of 9/11 families whose relatives were…

African slave heritage underwater Slave Wrecks Project team members with Thiaw, center. Source: The Washington Post/Jane Hahn An article in The Washington Post describes efforts of the Slave…

Anthropologist walks into the World Bank… World Bank headquarters in DC. It is a bank, after all. Source: Creative Commons What happens when an anthropologist/physician becomes president of the…

Olympic sports vs. favela life Rio’s Rocinha favela in the foreground. Source: Wikipedia An article in The Chicago Tribune juxtaposed the lavish display of competitive sports at the…

Listen to the data: Police in the U.S. fatally shoot more blacks than whites Source: Creative Commons, Lorie Shaull The Chronicle of Higher Education carried an article describing…

Mass killings are local and global Source: Creative Commons Nancy Scheper-Hughes, professor of medical anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, published an article in Counterpunch (U.S….

Colonial legacy and racism feed resentment in France Following the attack in Nice, France. Source: Creative Commons The Sun (U.K.) carried an article on factors behind the attack…

Attack in Dhaka News coverage of the attack in the Gulshan neighborhood of Dhaka. Source: Creative Commons The Pioneer (Bangladesh) reported on the background of most of the Gulshan…

Presidential woes in Afghanistan Source: Adam Ferguson/The New Yorker The New Yorker carried a long piece describing the role of Ashraf Ghani, who trained as a cultural anthropologist,…

Heed this: Political break-ups in comparative perspective Source: Creative Commons Wired carried an article about the Brexit vote, drawing on research by Peter Turchin, associate professor of evolutio…

Gun speak is louder than words National Public Ratio (U.S.) interviewed Robert Myers, a professor of anthropology and public health at Alfred University in New York, about his…

Anthropologist jailed in Iran without charge Hoodfar speaking at George Washington University in 2015. Source: Barbara Miller/GW The National (Abu Dhabi) reported that sociocultural anthropologist Hom…

Muhammad Ali, The Greatest: Boxer and social activist Muhammad Ali in 1966. Source: Wikimedia Commons Newsday reported on the death of Muhammad Ali. It quoted cultural anthropologist Orin Starn…

Because he can Schema of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb blast displayed in the Peace Memorial Museum. Source: Micha Rieser, Creative Commons The Daily Mail reported on U.S. President…

The kindness of Kenyans Source: Siegfried Modola/IRIN All Africa published an op-ed by Rahul Oka, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. He comments…

What is “India”: Textbook debate in California Source: The New York Times The New York Times reported on a debate in California about content related to “India” in…

Biological anthropologists address sexual harrassment Many physical anthropologists wore ribbons like this at their annual meeting. Source: AAPA Science magazine reported on a special panel at the ann…

The banality of U.S. politics Source: Flickr/Creative Commons Paul Stoller, professor of anthropology at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, published a piece in The Huffington Post on the…

Global mental health and economics Source: Flickr  USA Today carried an article about a report from the World Health Organization claiming that every U.S. dollar invested in mental health…

Protecting, Preserving, and Presenting the Cultural Heritage of the Near East  When: April 18, 8:30am – 12:30pm Who: AIA, ASOR, The Smithsonian Institution, and the GWU Capitol Archaeological In…

Sex trafficking and tea CNN carried an article following up on a series of videos it did last month about how girls growing up on tea plantations in…