anthronow:: Archives: 2011 May

Judgment Day

Tags: Anthropology, apocalypse, End Time, Judgment Day, Media

Added on Saturday, May 28th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Paul Stoller writes about Judgment Day at huffingtonpost.com: Like many people in America, I attended a get-together on Judgment Day, Saturday, May 21. According to the biblical calculations of Family Radio’s Harold Camping, Judgment Day would…

U.S. Border Troubles: From Pakistan to Akwesasne

Tags: Akwesasne, Alaska, borders, Canada, landfill waste, Military, Mohawk, Pakistan, toxic pollution

Added on Sunday, May 22nd, 2011 to Featured sections.

Recent protests in Karachi against continued U.S. drone strikes should serve as a reminder that the violation of international law and Pakistani sovereignty in the interests of U.S. security predates the recent discovery and killing of Osama bin…

An American Dream

Tags: America, Anthropology, Media, politics, The Governator, USA

Added on Friday, May 20th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Louise Krasniewicz, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke to CNN’s Only On the Blog about Arnold schwarzenegger: Arnold’s importance has never been about his acting or his…

Volume 3 Number 1

Added on Friday, May 20th, 2011 to Current Magazine Cover sections.

Table of Contents Recycling History and the Never-Ending Life of Cuban Things Sarah Hill Free Water! DIY Wetlands and the Futures of Urban Gray Water Scott Webel Transnational Waste and Its Discontents Joshua Reno When Blue Jeans…

Does Height Matter?

Tags: Anthropology, health, Media, medical anthropology

Added on Sunday, May 15th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

The New York Times’ Room for Debate opinion section asks “Do We Want to Be Supersize Humans? If human bodies become taller, bigger and longer-living — is that progress?” Alexandra Brewis, a medical anthropologist, answers: Height conveys all…

Saudi Arabia

Tags: Anthropology, Media, Saudi Arabia, Uprisings

Added on Monday, May 9th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Madawi Al Rasheed, a professor of social anthropology at Kings College in London, spoke about Saudi Arabia to Elizabeth Jackson, an ABC Australia’s correspondent. Saudi Arabia tries to project itself as a stabilizer, as a force that would…

Death in a Family

Tags: death, diet, fieldwork, Guatemala, health, nutrition

Added on Sunday, May 8th, 2011 to Fieldnotes sections.

I am living with a large extended family, an experience that has been both comforting (people are always everywhere) and lonely (what a social misfit I am living so far from my own strong kinship ties!). Seven siblings (now ages 50–35) inherited…

Bin Laden is Dead

Tags: Anthropology, Media, war, war on terror

Added on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Susan Hirsch, a Professor of Anthropology and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, talked to NPR’s Melissa Block about Bin Laden’s death. Susan Hirsch’s husband was killed in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam,…

ON STANDS

all articles published in May, 2011