The Inaugural Post of Betwixt and Between: Anthropology Now’s Guest Blogger Venue Dillon Mahoney #Anthropology Once upon a time, in the late 19th century, anthropology was popular, but it wasn't necessarily a good thing. From pseudo-scientific justifications of racial hierarchies to the displays of so-called primitive…
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…
Conspiracies are U.S. : On Making Up Truthers, Birthers and Deathers, Part 2 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 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 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? 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 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 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 **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 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…
