Not for Sale: How WWII Artifacts Mobilized Japanese-Americans Online
On March 5, 2015, Eve M. Kahn’s “Newsworthy Notes” in the Antiques section of the New York Times included an announcement for a local auction alongside two short articles, “Remembering Ragtime” and “Go raise a glass” [1]. “Art of Internment Camps Will Head to Auction” was the first public announcement that the Rago auction house […]
December 2015
Volume 7 | Issue 3 | December 2015 This issue includes: Features The Future is Female: Bateson, Benjamin and How Women Learn in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus by Cynthia Kraman The Potholed Path: Navigating the Contested Landscape of English Caravan Site Policy by Bel Parnell-Berry Idle Hands: Individual Effects of the Mechanization of Chinese Shadow Puppet […]
Perpetual War
Perpetual War Text by Katherine T. McCaffrey. Photos by Bonnie Donohue. Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, is home to 107 abandoned military bunkers, a legacy of the U.S. naval presence on the island. Designed to contain ammunition and high explosives, the bunkers were constructed during the build up to WWII, when the German threat to the […]
Children on the Border: Could Migration be the Problem, Not the Solution?
Youth gang recruits in Guatemala and elsewhere in Central America are at risk at home, during migration, and even once they reach the U.S. Photo courtesy of USAID Can a border crisis originate in nurseries? More and more Americans are hiring women from Central America to raise their children. More often than not, the women […]
Rasanblaj Continua: A Conversation with Gina Athena Ulysse
This past summer marked the release of Caribbean Rasanblaj, a special double issue of the Hemispheric Institute’s journal, e-misférica. Our social media team at Anthropology Now was proud to spread the word about this unique online resource, which is available to all at: Hemispheric Institute’s journal, e-misférica In this web-exclusive discussion for Anthropology Now, Andrea Queeley interviews the project’s […]
The Nexus of Collaboration: Negotiating African American History and Public Interest in Southwest Virginia
On a hazy June afternoon in 2003, we stood on a bluff overlooking the New River in Whitethorne, Virginia with members of the newly formed Kentland Historic Revitalization Committee. The group had convened to curb a record of benign neglect in the historic district of Kentland Farm, the agricultural research station of Virginia Polytechnic Institute […]
What Did Malinowski Eat in Papua?
One hundred years ago (June 27, 1915 to be precise), Bronislaw Malinowski arrived in the Trobriand Islands of eastern Papua New Guinea to begin the fieldwork that would become legendary and shape his whole career, ultimately revolutionizing British social anthropology. He was 31 years old, a brilliant polyglot born of Polish gentry. He was highly […]
September 2015
Volume 7 | Issue 2 | September 2015 This issue includes: Features Healing Circles and Restorative Justice: Learning from Non-Anglo American Traditions by Timothy H. Gailey The Law, Society and a Larger Vision: A Commentary on Healing Circles and Restorative Justice by Francis J. Larkin Perpetual War with text by Katherine T. McCaffrey and photos […]
Haiti Photography Project: a quick seven day experiment
Technology for development projects (T4D) typically import expensive and unsustainable equipment when trying to improve a situation. The one laptop per child project is an example of a typical T4D kind of initiative. Although its laptops are, for the world of laptops, inexpensive, their cost is still prohibitive in the places where they are deployed. […]
USFSP Researchers Make Groundbreaking Discovery: the First Complete Ancient African Genome
St. Petersburg, Fla. (October 8, 2015) – An anthropology team from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg (USFSP), Drs. John and Kathryn Arthur, have announced that after several years of excavation and research in southwestern Ethiopia, their work has resulted in an enduring discovery: the first complete ancient African genome. In 2012, an ancient […]