Childbirth in the Americas: Part Four
Humanizing Birth in Bahia, Brazil Big changes in birth care are underway in Brazil. Excessive rates of cesarean section delivery and persistently high maternal mortality have inspired a…
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Sensuality and Sexual Topographies in the Middle East and North Africa
Two Lovers by Reza Abbasi, Persian miniaturist 16th century. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons A rich intellectual engagement in matters related to sexuality occupies the histories of the Middle…
Achy Breaky Heart
This Valentine’s Day Anthropology News takes an alternative look at contemporary romance. Ilana Gershon shares her reflections on relationships and breakups, based on research for her 2010 book,…
Black, Feminist and Unfunded: Advice on Fieldwork in New York City
Initially my project was about Afro-Caribbean domestics. Unfortunately I did not get funding and the summer courses I was scheduled to teach were canceled at the last minute.…
Heritage Destruction in Cholula, Mexico
Heavy machinery working next to the Guadalupe psychiatric hospital at the base of the Great Pyramid of Cholula and sanctuary to the Virgen de los Remedios. Photo courtesy…
Care Comes Home
Hydrangeas flourishing in my grandmother’s garden. Photo courtesy of Alison Witchard I have spent most of the past year thinking about and engaging with anthropological literature on care…
Does Early Intervention Promote Recovery?
Director of NIMH Leaves for Google to Develop New Technologies There is a growing trend among large companies in the private sector to join in health promotion efforts,…
Childbirth in the Americas: Part One
Rumors, Threats and C-Sections in Rural Yucatan. Veronica Miranda, U Kentucky. Series Introduction by Eliza Williamson and Mounia El Kotni. Introduction Eliza Williamson Mounia El Kotni In her…
10 Trillion Gallons of Water Should Drown China’s Yangtze Gorges World Heritage Application
The Three Gorges Dam Main Wall, 2006. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons The Yangtze River begins in the Tibetan Plateau and flows eastward into the East China Sea at Shanghai. …
Rina Sherman and the Ovahimba
Exhibit Review Rina Sherman and the head man standing at the entrance of the exhibit. Photo courtesy Rina Sherman Approach the exhibit hall of the Francois Mitterrand National…
Cultivating Knowledge about Cannabis Legalization
Marijuana plants at 3D Cannabis Centers in Denver. There are many specialized strains of marijuana with names reflecting their cultivation heritage: Girl Scout Cookies, Sour Diesel Kush, Super…
Making Connections Through Simulation
F-5N Tiger II Simulator at NAS Fallon. Photo Courtesy Joseph K. Robinson The simulator operator warned me that I might get sick. I stepped down from the platform…
The Shah of Snakes
Why Shahmaran Matters Shahmaran. Photo courtesy Aynur Ocak-Gundogan Within the cultural fabric of Anatolia and the plains of Mesopotamia lies the story of Shahmaran, a beautiful woman with…
San Bernardino
San Bernardino, National Forest, from Space. The raw satellite imagery shown in these images was obtain from NASA and/or the US Geological Survey. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons Long…
Anthropological Irony
Cultural Relativism and the Destruction of Cultural Artifacts by the Islamic State Nimrud Assyria, Lamassus Guarding Palace Entrance, Before Destruction. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Cultural rel…
Building Research Partnerships with Physicians and Patients
“At the last medical conference I attended, we were all told to find an anthropologist to work with on our research.” These were the opening words of a…
AN Call for Proposals
Anthropology News invites contributions for two series that explore anthropological research and perspectives related to key topical events in 2016. The short calls below are intended to spark…
The Absent Crowd
What imagery has come to define political life in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe? In the summer of 2012, a few hundred protesters gathering weekly in front…
A Mile High in November!
“Bronco Buster” statue in Denver. Photo courtesy Barbara Jones Denver in November can be a very interesting place to visit. The weather changes by the second so you…
Part II: SLACA welcomes Linda J. Seligmann, the new editor for the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JLACA)
Dr. Linda J. Seligmann, the new editor for the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JLACA) SLACA’s AN section editor, Melisa Rivière, took the opportunity to interview…
Curation of Migration
Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW) reunites artists, academics and performers that share the experience of serial migration. The flexible format of the workshop exhibits work or specific perform…
Painting Anthropology
My skills as a portrait painter provide me with a helpful ethnographic way of getting to know my “informants” during fieldwork. I invite people to pose for a…
Linguistic and Local Peripherality: The Case of Chalmatians in Greater New Orleans
In Greater New Orleans, there is an enregistered (Agha 2003) dialect of English that sounds similar to New York City English, making it stand out within the linguistic…
Two More Views on Anthropologists and Boycotts
Note from the editor: Anthropology News shares here two essays that discuss the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction movement (BDS) as it relates to current discussions among anthropologists. As a…