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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…
Bearing Witness
Tags: Anthropology, gender, Guatemala, Media, rape, trauma, violence, war
Added on Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
CNN runs a two-part story on the traumas of rape in wartime. The first part highlights the work of Vitoria Sanford among Mayan women in Guatemala: It began as a headache. Then her throat started to feel tight. A dull pain welled in her chest and…
Sneaking Across the Israeli Palestinian Border
Tags: borders, Israel, palestinian, structural violence, violence
Added on Monday, October 5th, 2009 to Audio & Video sections.
Avram Bornstein, anthropologist at John Jay college in New York City, discusses his fieldwork with Palestinian day-laborers, the experiencing of circumventing Israeli checkpoints at dawn, the concept of structural violence, and impossibility of…
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