Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference 2nd last day
Summary covering the second last day of the Australasian HIV&AIDS Conference. Please read on… Professor Sharon Lewin (@sharonlewinPDI) & Professor Robert Grant @GladstoneLabs chaired a…
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Quotations of note: Henrietta Moore on Gimi creation narratives
I cringed reading certain parts of this (see, ‘she makes things grow by magically extending motherhood’ and ‘she internalises them as a woman does a child’),…
Quotations of note: Henrietta Moore on Gimi creation narratives
I cringed reading certain parts of this (see, ‘she makes things grow by magically extending motherhood’ and ‘she internalises them as a woman does a child’),…
STI & HIV Congress ends, HIV & AIDS conference begins
The last day of the World STI & HIV Congress and the first day of the Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference. Please read on for a summary… Did…
Jack Goody (1919-2015): an oral history
[The following is an invited post by Keith Hart, Centennial Professor of Economic Anthropology in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and International…
Christine Wilson Award 2015
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is pleased to announce the 2015 Christine Wilson Award. The award recognizes outstanding student research examining topics in nutrition, food stu…
Teaching Anthropology of/through Games, Part 1
In part one of this two-part series, Krista Harper (UMass Amherst) provides insight into her successful Fall 2014 course, “Anthropology of/through Games.” There is so much here that is…
When We Assess Democracy In Egypt, Whose “Democracy” Are We Measuring?
“Bread, freedom, social justice!” What’s your definition of democracy? Yesterday, after a lecture on ethnographic fieldwork, a student came up to me to discuss the anthropological c…
World STI and HIV Congress day 3
A summary of the third day of the World STI and HIV congress in Brisbane, Australia. Read on… Tuesday, 15 September 2015 Plenary Talks today were delivered by Raphael Valdivia, Jane Hocking,…
Drugs are… good? No, that can’t be right. Can it?
Like most academics, I’m obsessive. I spend a lot of my free time doing searches for new research on recreational drug use. I do this partly because there’s…
The way value inheres: Yolŋu riŋgitj and its relationship to Malay ‘ringgit’
Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, Port of Macassar, 1947. There are many loan words from Malay and other Austronesian languages in the Yolŋu languages of east Arnhem Land (see…
The way value inheres: Yolŋu riŋgitj and its relationship to Malay ‘ringgit’
Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, Port of Macassar, 1947. There are many loan words from Malay and other Austronesian languages in the Yolŋu languages of east Arnhem Land (see…
World STI & HIV Congress day 2
A summary of the second day of the World STI and HIV congress in Brisbane, Australia. Read on… Morning Session on Publishing and Grant Writing for early career…
Joint World STI & HIV & ASHM Congress
The World STI and HIV congress and Australasian HIV and AIDS conference are happening back to back this week. Delegates have come from all around the world to attend…
So You’re an Undergraduate and You Want to Get Published
By Rayna Elizabeth If you are thinking of pursing a career in academia or as a writer in general, you might want to attempt to submit your research…
Preliminary Thoughts on Race, Disability, and Health
Despite increasingly widespread attention to disability rights, disability outcomes in the United States remain shockingly divided by race. Few people realize that having a disability today is literal…
Aspiring Politician? Try Facebook to build your personal brand.
Image Courtesy: @mkstalin and image shared on Saravanan’s Facebook profile Personal brand building through social media requires a strategically planned presentation of oneself to a general audi…
Embracing Impostor Syndrome
image source It seems a fair amount of academics, especially women, suffer from impostor syndrome, “a constant fear of being discovered to be a fraud and a charlatan.”…
anthro in the news 9/7/15
Chagos update The Financial Times reported on continuing efforts in the U.K. and elsewhere by displaced Chagos Islanders to return home and receive compensation for their forced…
Reading fiction as therapy
Recently I found a website that offers fiction as therapy. You have a consultation of sorts and they send you away with a list of novels to read…
If Not Us, Then Who?
A Case for Paying It Forward in Anthropology A few months before starting a new job as president of a residential research institute that primarily supports anthropology and…
Less public knowledge, more private meaning (lessons for politicians and brands)
This is a part of a map of London drawn by Fuller (aka Gareth Wood). Wood says that he created a map to show his relationship with the city over…
Indispensability of medical anthropology
Medical anthropology, although considered a subcategory in anthropology, has been making contributions to medicine and public health since the development of anthropology itself. The fact that anthrop…
“It all comes alive.” Robbie Baer on Successful Service-Learning Projects with Anthropology of Food Students
Lauren Moore University of Kentucky This month, we hear from Dr. Roberta Baer, Professor at the University of South Florida. She shares what she’s learned from four service-learning…