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Margaret Mead: This I Believe
Tags: Anthropology, Faith, India, Margaret Mead, Media, Radio
Added on Friday, January 27th, 2012 to Press Watch sections.
The Hindu newspaper published a piece commemorating the recording of Margaret Mead’s “This I Believe” essay for Edward R. Murrow’s radio series: I believe that to understand human beings it is necessary to think of them as part of the whole…
Weather Control
Tags: Anthropology, Colombia, economics, football, Media, shamanism, soccer, sport
Added on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 to Press Watch sections.
This interesting anthropology-related news bite appeared at ESPN: BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s top prosecutor is questioning why a shaman, or medicine man, was paid $2,000 to keep rain away from the closing ceremony of the Under-20 World…
Breaking Up in a Digital Age
Tags: Anthropology, digital, gender, internet, Media, online, sexuality, virtuality
Added on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 to Press Watch sections.
Illana Gershon of Indiana University appeared at WBEZ91.5 and discussed some the finding presented at her book, book, The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media: When anthropologist Illana Gershon interviewed her Indiana University students as…
The Banking Sector
Tags: Anthropology, banks, economics, England, financial crisis, Media, United kingdom
Added on Monday, January 2nd, 2012 to Press Watch sections.
BBC Business Daily dedicated its 29th of December program to “The Banking tribe:” Anthropologists spend decades studying the culture and rituals of obscure tribes in Africa and the Amazon but Dutch anthropologist Joris Luyendik tells…
More Anthropology Blogs
Tags: Anthropology, blog, internet, Media
Added on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Anthropology Report provides an extensive collection of anthropological blogs: Anthropology boasts rich and varied blogs. Veteran anthropology blogs feature deep content and now have a history of stimulating commentary. Sophisticated newcomers have…
New Guinea
Tags: Anthropology, development, imperialism, indigenous people, Indonesia, Media, occupation, Papua New Guinea
Added on Sunday, December 4th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Hugh Brody, a British Anthropologist and a filmmaker writes at Open Democracy about New Guinea, one of the most culturally and ecologically diverse regions in the planet. Tragically, industrial and international politics have devastated life…
Anthropologists Write on Afghanistan
Tags: Afghanistan, Anthropology, Cold War, fieldwork, Islam, Media, occupation, production of knowledge, taliban, war
Added on Sunday, November 20th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
The New York Times Sunday Book Review discusses the books of Noah Coburn and Thomas Barfield, two Boston University anthropologists who conducted fieldwork at Afghanistan: Ten years after the Taliban’s leaders fled their country in apparent…
Trash
Tags: Anthropology, consumption, economics, food, garbage, Media
Added on Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
The Seattle Times introduces the work of David Giles, an anthropology graduate student whose research interests revolve around trash: For his doctoral thesis, the University of Washington student is examining how cultural assumptions of what is…
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….
David Graeber
Tags: Anthropology, David Gareber, debt, economics, global economy, Media, Occupy, revolution, Uprisings, Wall Street
Added on Saturday, October 29th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
David Graeber is the subject of the cover story in the latest issue of the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine where he is is profiled as one of the founding activist of the Occupy Wall Street movement: David Graeber likes to say that he had three…
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