Seeking Refuge from Gender-Based Violence
In late 2015, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) warned of an impending refugee flow from Central America in large part because of the threat of…
Tag: Opinion
A 21st Century Update
Global Health Policy Toward Traditional Healers Introduction Much has occurred in the world of traditional medicine since the World Health Organization (WHO) first appealed for the integration of…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
December 6, 1986 & 2015: The Resilience of Violence
26 years ago today; I was pregnant, happy, optimistic for my child, who was being born into a world that had just breached the Berlin Wall. It seemed…
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…
Knowledge from an Object
Considering the material culture aspect of art conservation, this column is a continuation from my April 2015 column, Preserving Visual Culture and my tour of the U of…
Futurecasting Anthropology
Futurists are scientists that use data analysis, ethnographic methods and other scientific procedures to design and make predictions about our future. To do this, they do something called…
An Anthropological Endeavor
I was very inquisitive about having the opportunity of understanding how two anthropologists, Gretchen Bakke and Marina Peterson, formed their content for an upcoming publication pertaining to anthrop…
Beyond the Audit
Anthropologists Finding Careers at the Government Accountability Office In recent years, several colleagues and I from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) have had the opportunity to par…
Site and Motion of Graffiti
Graffiti is part of public visual culture that can represent a political stance or serve as an art form. An Anthropological documentation in a specific geographic site and…