ON STANDS
all articles published in November, 2011
Anthropologists Write on Afghanistan
Tags: Afghanistan, Anthropology, Cold War, fieldwork, Islam, Media, occupation, production of knowledge, taliban, war
Added on Sunday, November 20th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
The New York Times Sunday Book Review discusses the books of Noah Coburn and Thomas Barfield, two Boston University anthropologists who conducted fieldwork at Afghanistan: Ten years after the Taliban’s leaders fled their country in apparent…
Trash
Tags: Anthropology, consumption, economics, food, garbage, Media
Added on Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
The Seattle Times introduces the work of David Giles, an anthropology graduate student whose research interests revolve around trash: For his doctoral thesis, the University of Washington student is examining how cultural assumptions of what is…
Debunking Doomsday
Tags: 2012, Anthropology, apocalypse, conspiracy theories, disaster, doomsday, Education, maya, Media, prophecy
Added on Saturday, November 5th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
John W. Hoopes, an anthropologist at the University of Kansas, teaches a course on “Archaeological Myths and Realities” in which he tackles the 2012 myth among other doomsday premonitions: The United States has always embraced religious freedom….
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