ON STANDS
all articles published in January, 2012
Margaret Mead: This I Believe
Tags: Anthropology, Faith, India, Margaret Mead, Media, Radio
Added on Friday, January 27th, 2012 to Press Watch sections.
The Hindu newspaper published a piece commemorating the recording of Margaret Mead’s “This I Believe” essay for Edward R. Murrow’s radio series: I believe that to understand human beings it is necessary to think of them as part of the whole…
Weather Control
Tags: Anthropology, Colombia, economics, football, Media, shamanism, soccer, sport
Added on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 to Press Watch sections.
This interesting anthropology-related news bite appeared at ESPN: BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s top prosecutor is questioning why a shaman, or medicine man, was paid $2,000 to keep rain away from the closing ceremony of the Under-20 World…
Breaking Up in a Digital Age
Tags: Anthropology, digital, gender, internet, Media, online, sexuality, virtuality
Added on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 to Press Watch sections.
Illana Gershon of Indiana University appeared at WBEZ91.5 and discussed some the finding presented at her book, The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media: When anthropologist Illana Gershon interviewed her Indiana University students as part…
The Banking Sector
Tags: Anthropology, banks, economics, England, financial crisis, Media, United kingdom
Added on Monday, January 2nd, 2012 to Press Watch sections.
BBC Business Daily dedicated its 29th of December program to “The Banking tribe:” Anthropologists spend decades studying the culture and rituals of obscure tribes in Africa and the Amazon but Dutch anthropologist Joris Luyendik tells…
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