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‘Press Watch’
Written in a blog style, Press Watch links to and comments on anthropology in the news and anthropologists making news. This includes:
o Understanding current issues and events of the day through an anthropological perspective
o Running commentary on how anthropology shows up in media and pop culture
o Anthropologists cited or interviewed on topics of public concern
o How the discipline is–correctly or incorrectly–identified in describing a news event, culture, or location
o Short summaries with links and commentary on what the anthropological voice adds to these debates and discussions
o Links to other anthro-blogs around the web.
Magic!
Tags: Anthropology, magic, Media, paris
Added on Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
The Independent features the work of Graham Jones, an Anthropologists from MIT who studied the world of Professional magicians in Paris: Graham Jones might not have been able to pull a rabbit out of a hat at a kids’ party, but he was going to…
Anthropologists Not Needed in Florida
Tags: Anthropology, economics, Florida, Media, politics, science, U.S. news
Added on Thursday, October 13th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Speaking at The Mark Bernier Show, Florida Governor Rick Scott expressed an unfavorable opinion of anthropology: We don’t need a lot more anthropologists in the state. It’s a great degree if people want to get it, but we don’t need them here….
The Universality of Homosexuality
Tags: Aka, Anthropology, Central Africa, gender, homosexuality, Iran, Media, sexuality
Added on Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Reflecting upon Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s assertion that there are no homosexuals in Iran, this Slate Magazine article discusses recent anthropological research conducted by Barry and Bonnie Hewlett and considers if homosexuality…
On the Road
Tags: America, Anthropology, Media, road
Added on Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Bill Fairbanks, a retired anthropology professor from Los Osos, CA, has spent the last three summers walking along roads “to find out more about America’s inhabitants and what drives them.” I needed a challenge. So, I figured I would just walk…
Language Extinction
Tags: amazon, Anthropology, extinction, indigenous medicine, indigenous people, language, Media, zombies
Added on Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Cultural anthropologist Wade Davis has investigated zombies in Haiti, lived with tribes in the Amazon and Andes, and explored vanishing indigenous cultures from Borneo to east Africa. He has been the inspiration for three episodes of the television…
Homophobia in Soccer
Tags: Anthropology, football, gender, Germany, homosexuality, Media, soccer, sport
Added on Sunday, September 4th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Type the name of Philipp Lahm into the Google search engine and the first thing its “autocomplete” feature throws up about Germany’s national football captain is “Philipp Lahm schwul” – “Philipp Lahm gay”. As elsewhere in Europe,…
Sex, Crimes and Punishment
Tags: Anthropology, discipline, justice, Media, prison, punishment, sexuality, The Law, USA
Added on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Roger N. Lancaster published an opinion Piece at NYTimes, arguing that “Our sex offender laws are expansive, costly and ineffective — guided by panic, not reason.” In fact, the crimes that most spur public outrage — the abduction, rape and…
Anarchy in the UK?
Tags: Anthropology, Britain, economics, England, Media, riots, United kingdom, Uprisings, violence
Added on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Sean Carey writes at anthropologyworks.com about the attribution of the UK Riots to “outsiders:” But how true is the “outsider” hypothesis in accounting for riots? In the UK in the early 1980s, people often thought that “outsiders” were…
Terrorism
Tags: Anthropology, Fundamentalism, Islamophobia, Media, Norway, Right Wing, terrorism
Added on Sunday, July 31st, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, a professor in the department of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, discusses the terror attacks at Norway at opendemocracy.net : By coincidence, I was in Oslo on Friday 22 July 2011. During this time of the…
Women’s World Cup
Tags: Anthropology, Colombia, football, gender, japan, Media, sport
Added on Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Anthropologists discuss football/soccer and culture at The New York Times and CNN: Beatriz Vélez, former anthropology professor at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, studied the gender dynamics of football in her home city beginning in the…
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