April 2018 ~ Table of Contents
Volume 10 | Number 1 | April 2018 Features A Role for Anthropologists in the Local Food Movement by Paul Durrenberger To Protect and Improve: Developing the “Sacred Cow” in India byLaura Murray Why the Present Matters: The Importance of Community Outreach and Public Engagement in Archaeology by Tracie Mayfield and Scott E. Simmons Uncommon […]
Why the Present Matters: The Importance of Community Outreach and Public Engagement in Archaeology
But it is more important — because more humanizing — for us to understand the actors of the past in their full complexity and humanity, just as we would like to be appraised by future historians. Straw men and cardboard women are unworthy subjects and incapable of teaching us anything of value. – James Axtell […]
That Most Dangerous, Sacred American Space, the Bathroom
uncommon sense Spoiler alert: In Hitchcock’s masterpiece Psycho, Janet Leigh was not savagely murdered in the living room, but we’ll get to that. Culture wars can erupt anywhere, including in the bathroom. These spaces are personal. They really can be dangerous, nerve-wracking and threatening, but not for the reasons we hear on the media. Today’s […]