September 2014
Volume 6 / Number 2 / September 2014 This issue includes: Beer through the Ages: The Role of Beer in Shaping Our Past and Current Worlds. by John W. Arthur Trademarking Racism: Pseudo-Indian Symbols and the Business of Professional Sports. by Pauline Turner Strong The Sound of Silence in Cairo: Affects, Politics and Belonging. by […]
Reflections on Kara Walker’s “a Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby”
A recent installation of Kara Walker’s “a Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby” prompted anthropologist Elizabeth Chin to approach Anthropology Now with a powerful idea for commentary. With the former Domino Sugar Refinery as the exhibit space and evocations of Sidney Mintz’s Sweetness and Power as one of many shared points of reference, we invited […]
Throw a Survey at It: Questioning Soldier Resilience in the US Army
The banquet hall at the Philadelphia hotel hosting the 2011 Second World Congress for Positive Psychology was packed as keynote speaker Martin Seligman approached the podium. As the unofficial spokesperson for the bourgeoning field known as “the science of human happiness,” the former head of the American Psychological Association does double duty as both a […]
April 2014
Volume 6 / Number 1 / April 2014 This issue includes: Obesity Science and Health Translations in Guatemala: Engagement in Practice by Emily Yates-Doerr After a Lifetime of Labor: Informal Work among the Retired in Romania by Gerard A. Weber Throw a Survey at It: Questioning Soldier Resilience in the US Army by Emily Sogn […]
Theaster’s Way: On the Art of Theaster Gates
The latest piece by Gina Athena Ulysse, from her commentary on the Huffington Post, offers an anthropologist’s take on the work of artist Theaster Gates. “Mississippi is my Africa” (AKRiFa. he wrote on the makeshift board). Misspelled? A pun? Who the hell knows? That was his response to being asked where is home and, “Where […]
Feature Preview: The Sound of Silence
Look for the full essay with additional photos in the September 2014 issue of Anthropology Now. by Maria Frederika Malmström In this new project, part of an extensive study about materiality, affect and transformative politics in Egypt, I explore the absence of sound in the floating landscape of Egypt. Scholars have discussed the role of […]
Why Anthropology Still Matters: Faye V. Harrison
The latest piece by Gina Athena Ulysse from her running series on the Huffington Post, Why Anthropology Still Matters, offers an engaging look into the work of anthropologist Faye V. Harrison. “Needless to say, Harrison has shattered ceilings as the first Black person and only the second woman to take the helm in the history […]
Robin Nagle Talks Sanitation
Anthropologist Robin Nagle’s recent book sheds light on something many pay little attention to: what happens to the garbage we produce. Titled Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City, Nagle’s research pays particular attention to the labor force in charge of the city’s refuse–a force […]
Culture Brokering and Disaster Recovery
An October opinion piece in the Coloradoan by Kate Browne, an anthropologist whose work includes disaster recovery research and a broadcast documentary on the aftermath of Katrina, prompted Anthropology Now to post a call for commentary on the Anthropology and Environment Society listserv. We sought short, opinion page-style essays on whether culture brokers can indeed contribute to a paradigm […]
September 2013
Volume 5 / Number 2 / September 2013 This issue includes: Middle-Class Compassion and Man Boobs by Thaïs Machado-Borges The Opportunity Warehouse by Jed B. Tucker When a Beginning Is Not a Beginning by Kathryn B. H. Clancy Unconventional Archaeologies in Setauket, New York by Christopher N. Matthews Performing (and Ignoring) Preparedness in the United […]