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Look for featured posts in this category! Usually they are special full length pieces written especially for and appearing only on the Anthropology Now website; occasionally they will include full length pieces from the current print issue of Anthropology Now.

Our first featured post is a piece by Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz on Iraq War veterans that appeared in the first print issue of Anthropology Now.

The Keeper of the Kris

Tags: Ann Dunham Soetoro, Barack Obama, blacksmiths, Clifford Geertz, Ford Foundation, Indonesia, Power, Suharto

Added on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 to Articles and Featured sections.

**This is a special feature from the newest September 2010 issue of Anthropology Now. In “The Keeper of the Kris,” Janet Hoskins reviews Ann Dunham Soetoro’s book, Surviving against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia.** If she were alive…

Part 2: On Anthropology, Inspiration from Haiti

Added on Monday, June 21st, 2010 to Articles and Haiti Watch sections.

While planning the relief event, I could not see the magnitude of our efforts – I was simply too busy. The total weigh-in of donations was undoubtedly impressive, but with no prior experience in planning disaster relief events, I pondered how I…

Part 1: On Anthropology, Inspiration from Haiti

Added on Friday, June 18th, 2010 to Articles and Haiti Watch sections.

While trained as a cultural anthropologist, I also work within linguistics and have worked as an archaeologist. This freedom to be more holistic in my research is, I feel, one of anthropology’s strongest attractions. Combining this with…

Outsmarting Risk: From Bonuses to Bailouts

Added on Friday, May 14th, 2010 to Articles sections.

Outsmarting Risk: From Bonuses to Bailouts By Karen Z. Ho Recent criticisms of Wall Street bonuses and bailouts—whether they express incredulous disbelief, hopeless resignation, or unfortunate necessity—somehow leave us unsatisfied. Most…

Spitting Image

Tags: DNA, genetic testing, spit party

Added on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 to Articles sections.

*This is a special feature from the third, Darwin themed print issue of Anthropology Now.* spitting image, spit’n’ image. Informal. exact likeness; … bef. 950; (v.) ME spitten, OE spittan; c. G (dial.) spitzen to spit; akin to OE spætan to…

Nuclear Payouts: Knowledge and Compensation in the Chernobyl Aftermath

Tags: Chernobyl, disaster, Nuclear power plant, public health, radiation

Added on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 to Articles sections.

*This is a special feature from the second, atomic themed print issue of Anthropology Now.* “Nothing happened” When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in the early morning of April 26, 1986, it blasted a radioactive plume as high as…

Becoming Monsters in Iraq

Tags: Iraq, psychological problems, PTSD, veterans, war

Added on Monday, July 6th, 2009 to Articles and Featured sections.

This is a special feature from the first print issue of Anthropology Now. The following piece is drawn from a forthcoming book written by Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz with the assistance of Betsy Brinson and Jose Vasquez entitled War…