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Debunking Doomsday

Tags: 2012, Anthropology, apocalypse, conspiracy theories, disaster, doomsday, Education, maya, Media, prophecy

Added on Saturday, November 5th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

John W. Hoopes, an anthropologist at the University of Kansas, teaches a course on “Archaeological Myths and Realities” in which he tackles the 2012 myth among other doomsday premonitions: The United States has always embraced religious freedom….

The Plight of Refugees

Tags: Anthropology, disaster, Eritrea, Media, refugees, The United Nations

Added on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Tricia Redeker Hepner, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee writes at CounterPunch about the plight of refugees: The world’s attention is understandably fixed on the post-tsunami nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan…

Nuclear Allergy?

Tags: disaster, japan, Nuclear culture, radiation

Added on Monday, March 28th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

In the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese often proclaimed their society to be “allergic” to nuclear technology—particularly nuclear weapons. What has been far less acknowledged in Japan is a persistent pattern of…

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…

Nuclear Lessons

Tags: disaster, japan, Nuclear culture, nuclear energy, radiation

Added on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Barbara Rose Johnston and Hugh Gusterson ponder nuclear realities at the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences Barbara Rose Johnston: Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce…

Nuclear Power, Fears and the Limits of Democracy

Tags: Anthropology, disaster, japan, Media, Nuclear power plant, radiation

Added on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Keibo Oiwa, a Japanese cultural anthropologist and environmentalist, speaks to Democracy Now about the current nuclear crisis: And I’m really realizing again that, you know, democracy is so hollow now. I mean, we don’t have power. This is not…

On Japanese Suffering

Tags: disaster, earthquake, japan, Nuclear power plant, suffering

Added on Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

“In Japanese culture, there’s a sort of nobility in suffering with a stiff upper lip, in mustering the spiritual, psychological resources internally,” said John Nelson, a cultural anthropologist and chairman of the department of theology and…

Nuclear Payouts: Knowledge and Compensation in the Chernobyl Aftermath

Tags: Chernobyl, disaster, Nuclear power plant, public health, radiation

Added on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 to Articles sections.

*This is a special feature from the second, atomic themed print issue of Anthropology Now.* “Nothing happened” When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in the early morning of April 26, 1986, it blasted a radioactive plume as high as…

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