From The Brian Lehrer Show, December 14, 2010, anthropologists Hugh Gusterson (executive boardmember of the American Anthropological Association and professor of Anthropology at George Mason University) and Peter N. Peregrine (president of the Society for Anthropological Sciences and professor of Anthropology at Lawrence University) discuss the removal of the word ‘science’ from The American Anthropological Association’s long term mission statement:

click below to listen to the discussion

Anthropology: Science or Humanity?

(source: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2010/dec/14/anthropology-science-or-humanity/).

From The New York Observer, Wall Street article by Max Abelson,

“Today’s Must-See Animated Capitalist Takedown from RSA and David Harvey

By Max Abelson
June 29, 2010 | 6:24 p.m

If you watch just one funny and handsome Marxist critique of the financial crisis, make it the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce’s animated version of David Harvey’s RSA speech “Crises of Capitalism.” It’s been making the rounds this afternoon, and for good reason: Mr. Harvey, a Marxist scholar who heads CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture & Politics, describes not just the failures that caused the ongoing fiasco, but the failure of how we’ve explained it…”

Click here for the original article and to read the rest of Abelson’s article

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A medical anthropologist and physician at Harvard University, Paul Farmer is also the Deputy U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti and a co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH), a health organization that has worked in Haiti since 1987. For more information on PIH, click here.

For more on Paul Farmer and his work, check out his faculty page at Harvard’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine here.

You can also listen to an earlier audio interview done with NPR in 2003 here.

UPDATED: Additional news reports about Paul Farmer

Tales from the Front by Paul Farmer, Louise Ivers, Claire Pierre – MiamiHerald

The Tragedy of Haiti…and Us by Paul Buchheit – Counterpunch

Avram Bornstein, anthropologist at John Jay college in New York City, discusses his fieldwork with Palestinian day-laborers, the experiencing of circumventing Israeli checkpoints at dawn, the concept of structural violence, and impossibility of objectivity in the American Media.

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