An Anthropologist to Head the World Bank? The White House named Jim Yong Kim as its nominee to head to World Bank. Jim Yong Kim is the president of Dartmouth College, an anthropologist, a physician and a global health expert. This nomination forms a radical break from the traditional…
April 2012 Volume 4 / Number 1 / April 2012 This issue includes: A Right to Beauty by Alexander Edmonds Who Cares for the Caregivers? by Jonathan Stillo The Prosperity of Gospel in Times of Austerity by Kate Griffiths Dingani What's in a Laptop? by…
Alex Edmonds “A Right to Beauty” Featured Article A Right to Beauty Alexander Edmonds While living in Rio de Janeiro in 1999, I saw something that caught my attention: a television broadcast of a Carnival parade that paid homage to a plastic surgeon, Dr. Ivo…
Family Life in the USA Elinor Ochs’ latest research on child-rearing practices among middle class US families receives wide spread media attention: Anthropologist Elinor Ochs and her colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles have studied family life as far…
Catastrophe and its Ghosts A year after whole neighborhoods were killed by the Japanese tsunami, rumors of ghosts swirl in Ishinomaki as the city struggles to come to terms with the tragedy. One reconstruction project appears stalled because of fears the undead spirits of…
