Life Last Week
Sarah Chinnery, via Trove I spent this week fascinated by the photography of Sarah Chinnery. Her images of PNG, famous anthropologists, flower still lives, street scenes, and friends…
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Socialites and Indian Baskets: Success of Harwood Hall at Sherman and Chemawa
I have always been confused why there is a Chemawa Jr. High in Riverside CA. in recent reserahc I foudn there was a preexisting Chemawa park which predated…
Life Last Week
When you’re too busy to blog… link! This week I was consumed by a desire to filter and sort ebook offerings at University of Chicago Press’s 75% off…
Modernizing the US Coast Guard’s Miscarriage Leave Policy
JULIEANN THOMAS March 1, 2022 Rear Admiral Eric Jones Assistant Commandant for Human Resources (CG-1) United States Coast GuardWashington, DC 20593 United States of America Dear…
Life Last Week
JFK’s coconut shell encased in plastic, via Wikimedia Commons After a bumpy election, James Marape returns for a second round as prime minister of PNG. I’m optimistic about…
REVIEW: Essays on A. L. Kroeber (1876–1960) and the Unnaming of Kroeber Hall
Editors’ note: The following review by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, the accomplished historian of anthropology and folklore, reflects on a collection of essays recently published about the 2020 decision b…
Friday links
Murray Chapman, a geographer of the Pacific, passed away on the Big Island after a long career mentoring students, including many Pacific Islanders. The festschrift Oceanic Sojourns is…
Personalnot in Kitas: Wie Sie für Ihre Einrichtung Mitarbeiter gewinnen
Personalnot in Kitas: Wie Sie für Ihre Einrichtung Mitarbeiter gewinnen.
The earliest origins of that one Margaret Mead quote
via goalcast Margaret Mead’s quote about how a small group of citizens can change the world can be found all over the Internet. But did she actually say…
Saturday Links
Several things happened this week: Finished my colleague John Rosa’s book Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case And The Culture Of History. Re-watched Redbelt for the first time in…
General Jerry Singirok’s memoir of the Sandline Affair is an inexpensive ebook
I normally don’t shill for Amazon — in fact I go out of my way to get my ebooks elsewhere. However in this case I think a plug…
Just in Time (how to be an anthropologist in business)
As the academic world continues its slow motion descent into financial and sometimes intellectual insolvency, some anthropologists seek employment in the world of business. The Journal of Business…
(Mis)Managing Algorithms of Hate: The Nexus of Big Tech and the State in India
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to the recording of this piece by Aishani Khurana In February 2020, Delhi witnessed one of the worst inc…
Transformation, Hope and the Commons: A Belfast #EASA2022 conference
Fiona Murphy and Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou, Queen’s University Belfast Figure 1. EASA 2022 logo – the beacon of hope An elegant female figure, a beacon of hope, composed of…
ARHE Policy Brief Award
We are excited to announce the first annual ARHE Policy Brief Award is now open for submissions. The aim of the award is to encourage and acknowledge the contributions…
Anthropolitan | Call for Photographs 2022
Dear students and staff, We are delighted to write with news of a new departmental photography initiative. We warmly invite submissions from all members of the department—students and…
KulturTransfer – Wie fast alles, was uns vertraut ist, eigentlich einen Migrationshintergrund hat (Buchprojekt)
Michael Toggweiler Das Wort „Tabu“, das bei Sigmund Freud Prominenz erhalten sollte und nicht mehr aus unserem Alltagswortschatz wegzudenken ist, brachte James Cook aus der Südsee mit. “…
KulturTransfer – Wie fast alles, was uns vertraut ist, eigentlich einen Migrationshintergrund hat (Buchprojekt)
Michael Toggweiler Das Wort „Tabu“, das bei Sigmund Freud Prominenz erhalten sollte und nicht mehr aus unserem Alltagswortschatz wegzudenken ist, brachte James Cook aus der Südsee mit. „…
Anthropology Biographies
Arjun AppaduraiRuth BenedictAllison DavisNatascha Döw-SchullKatherine DunhamMarvin HarrisEpeli Hau‘ofaZora Neale HurstonEdmund LeachClaude Lévi-StraussRobert LowieBronislaw MalinowskiMarcel MaussLewi…
Ep # 92 Emergency Contraceptives & Hymenoplasty: Lisa Wynn on Sexual & Reproductive Health Tech
The Familiar Strange · Ep # 92 Emergency Contraceptives & Hymenoplasty: Lisa Wynn on Sexual & Reproductive Health Tech This podcast contains themes or topics that may be…
A Tale of Two Olhas: Reframing Ukrainian women’s experiences of war
ByAmandas OngPhD Anthropology Olha K.1 was not happy. For weeks, she had been waiting to apply for a national identification number that would grant Ukrainians like herself full…
Pirámides
El papel del estado en la economía es algo que se supone resuelto desde la formulación de John M. Keynes del mecanismo de la demanda agregada. Simplificando, para…
Do Not Adjust Your Dial (Ep. #18 Re-release)
Apologies strange familiars. We had some technical difficulties this morning and you might have noticed an podcast briefly go out this morning that wasn’t supposed to. Just a…
CRISPR: Rewriting the story of humanity and evolution through gene-editing
ByTarisha KaushikBSc Anthropology The technology of CRISPR (“clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”) has revolutionised the world of biology and evolution yet w…