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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…

U.S. Border Troubles: From Pakistan to Akwesasne

Tags: Akwesasne, Alaska, borders, Canada, landfill waste, Military, Mohawk, Pakistan, toxic pollution

Added on Sunday, May 22nd, 2011 to Featured sections.

Recent protests in Karachi against continued U.S. drone strikes should serve as a reminder that the violation of international law and Pakistani sovereignty in the interests of U.S. security predates the recent discovery and killing of Osama bin…

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…

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…

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