by Matthew Gutmann & Catherine Lutz

As many of 40 percent of combat veterans returning from Iraq are crippled from psychological problems. A growing number of anti-war veterans acknowledge the toll of post-traumatic stress, but refuse to let their suffering be claimed as a disorder. Instead, they see the trauma as the natural reaction to the acts of war.>> More

Introducing: Anthropology NOW!
- from the Editors

Welcome to the first edition of Anthro Now! We are pleased to introduce the first issue of a magazine that gives insights of anthropology a clear, accessible and lively voice.

 

Margaret Mead, Public Anthropologist
-Nancy Lutkehaus

Quick, name an anthropologist. Unless you are one, there is a good chance your list begins and ends with Margaret Mead.Through TV and magazine, Mead became anthropology's public face, an icon and public intellectual who made anthropological insight relevant to a range of current social issues. Mead brought culture home, proving that we could learn about other cultures, and learn from them at the same time.

 

Are Women Evolutionary Sex Objects?
-Fran Mascia-Lees

U.S. culture is particularly obsessed with breasts. Deeply interwoven with standards of beauty, conceptions of sexuality, even the sense of self worth, images of breasts permeate museums, book covers, fashion ads, and movie screens. It may be no surprise then that this human trait has been interpreted through the lens of male sexual desire..

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