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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.

Conspiracies are U.S. : On Making Up Truthers, Birthers and Deathers, Part 2

Tags: 911 truth-ers, conspiracy theories, JFK, Obama birth-ers, Osama bin Laden death-ers, Secrets, Watergate

Added on Saturday, August 13th, 2011 to Articles and Featured sections.

This is Part 2 of a two part series by Prof. Joshua Reno on conspiracies in the U.S. You can read Part 1 here. In the August 2011 issue of American Ethnologist, I discuss how it is that evidence becomes inadmissible, stopping us from giving an…

Conspiracies are U.S. : On Making Up Truthers, Birthers and Deathers, Part 1

Tags: 911 truth-ers, conspiracy theories, JFK, Obama birth-ers, Osama bin Laden death-ers, Secrets, Watergate

Added on Saturday, August 13th, 2011 to Articles and Featured sections.

It is both disturbing and fascinating to follow the role of conspiracy theories in U.S. politics over the last decade and their apparent relationship to the Internet. One could claim that nothing has really changed, that mysterious and powerful…

What Might The Media’s Short Term Attention to Disasters Tell Us About Ourselves?

Tags: disaster, earthquake, haiti, japan, Libya, Media, Nuclear power plant

Added on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 to Articles and Featured sections.

One of the most interesting turn of events during the current nuclear crisis in Japan is how by Thursday, March 17, 2011 the ongoing drama of the catastrophe was displaced from the headlines by stories about the rebellion in Libya. Just as it…

Highway 60 Visited: Part 2

Tags: Highway 60, Israel, Palestine, Price Tag, West Bank

Added on Monday, March 14th, 2011 to Articles and Featured sections.

This continues our special essay by our new editor, Assaf H. Part 1 was posted on Thur, March 3rd, please click here to read Part 1. Two units of security forces remained in the area. Partly police partly military unit, the notorious Border…

Highway 60 Visited: Part 1

Tags: Highway 60, Israel, Palestine, West Bank

Added on Friday, March 4th, 2011 to Articles and Featured sections.

Highway 60 coils through the southern hills of Hebron and Judea, dissolves into Jerusalem, reemerges from it toward Samaria, and as it nears the biblical Mounts of Blessing and Curse, it escapes the West Bank. Roughly reflecting the ancient Route…

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…

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