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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…

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…

Bin Laden is Dead

Tags: Anthropology, Media, war, war on terror

Added on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Susan Hirsch, a Professor of Anthropology and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, talked to NPR’s Melissa Block about Bin Laden’s death. Susan Hirsch’s husband was killed in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam,…

Côte d’Ivoire

Tags: Africa, Anthropology, cocoa, Ivory Coast, Media, war

Added on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Mike McGovern, a professor of political anthropology at Yale University, “remembers Ivory Coast in calmer, more prosperous times, when the country was flush with cocoa profits and the city of Abidjan was at its busy peak.” He talks with NPR’s Linda…

War: Morality vs. Rationality

Tags: Anthropology, Barack Obama, Libya, Media, morality, rationality, war

Added on Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Scott Atran writes about war at The Huffington Post: “The art of war,” Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations, “is certainly the noblest of all arts.” In every culture, war is considered society’s most noble endeavor (recent threat of nuclear…

The War in Libya

Tags: Anthropology, Foreign Policy, Libya, Media, Uprisings, war

Added on Monday, March 21st, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

“The Libyan Revolution is Dead” declares Maximilian Forte in his Zero Anthropology Blog. …this is an autopsy, identifying the weapons used, and the criminals responsible for killing the Libyan revolution. This is no longer a Libyan…

Becoming Monsters in Iraq

Tags: Iraq, psychological problems, PTSD, veterans, war

Added on Monday, July 6th, 2009 to Articles and Featured sections.

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…

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