anthronow:: Archives: 2011 April

A Royal Zombie Wedding

Tags: Anthropology, Britain, England, Media, Monarchy, protest

Added on Saturday, April 30th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Two British Anthropologist were arrested for planning an anti-monarchist “Zombie Wedding” in downtown London. Michael Balter from Science Magazine reports: Yesterday evening, while Prince William and Kate Middleton (now the Duke and Duchess of…

The Plight of Refugees

Tags: Anthropology, disaster, Eritrea, Media, refugees, The United Nations

Added on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Tricia Redeker Hepner, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee writes at CounterPunch about the plight of refugees: The world’s attention is understandably fixed on the post-tsunami nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan…

Ishi

Tags: Anthropology, Ishi, Media, Native American

Added on Saturday, April 23rd, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

The Chico News & Review published an article about Ishi, who is commonly known as the “last wild Indian.” Featuring several anthropologists, both old and new, the article discusses the ”legacy of Ishi” and illustrates why Ishi remains…

Anthropological Antiquity

Tags: Anthropology, Iran, Islam, Media

Added on Sunday, April 17th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

The appropriation of anthropology for political, economic or religious means is far from being a new phenomena. What is interesting in this case is the construction of an Islamic myth of anthropological antiquity which is framed in opposition to…

Côte d’Ivoire

Tags: Africa, Anthropology, cocoa, Ivory Coast, Media, war

Added on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Mike McGovern, a professor of political anthropology at Yale University, “remembers Ivory Coast in calmer, more prosperous times, when the country was flush with cocoa profits and the city of Abidjan was at its busy peak.” He talks with NPR’s Linda…

Medical Anthropology for the Skin

Tags: Anthropology, beauty, Media, medical anthropology

Added on Thursday, April 7th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Developed by cultural anthropologist, Dr. Tramayne Butler, AnthroSpa Logic combines beauty secrets from around the world and uses a combination of exotic, organic ingredients used for centuries by native peoples both medicinally and in beauty…

War: Morality vs. Rationality

Tags: Anthropology, Barack Obama, Libya, Media, morality, rationality, war

Added on Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Scott Atran writes about war at The Huffington Post: “The art of war,” Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations, “is certainly the noblest of all arts.” In every culture, war is considered society’s most noble endeavor (recent threat of nuclear…

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all articles published in April, 2011