A Royal Zombie Wedding
Two British Anthropologist were arrested for planning an anti-monarchist “Zombie Wedding” in downtown London. Michael Balter from Science Magazine reports: Yesterday evening, while Prince William and Kate Middleton (now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) were making last minute preparations for their royal wedding, two well-known anthropologists were arrested for helping to plan a “Zombie […]
The Plight of Refugees
Tricia Redeker Hepner, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee writes at CounterPunch about the plight of refugees: The world’s attention is understandably fixed on the post-tsunami nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan and the equally seismic political transformations shaking North Africa and the Middle East. Much speculation swirls around the impact of […]
Ishi
The Chico News & Review published an article about Ishi, who is commonly known as the “last wild Indian.” Featuring several anthropologists, both old and new, the article discusses the “legacy of Ishi” and illustrates why Ishi remains pertinent to anthropological practice and knowledge even though a hundred years have passed since his sudden appearance: The story of Ishi is […]
Anthropological Antiquity
The appropriation of anthropology for political, economic or religious means is far from being a new phenomena. What is interesting in this case is the construction of an Islamic myth of anthropological antiquity which is framed in opposition to the contemporariness of Anthropology as a Western form of knowledge. The Iran Book News Agency announced the publication […]
Côte d’Ivoire
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 Wertheimer about the Ivory Coast’s history and the events that led up to the […]
Medical Anthropology for the Skin
Developed by cultural anthropologist, Dr. Tramayne Butler, AnthroSpa Logic combines beauty secrets from around the world and uses a combination of exotic, organic ingredients used for centuries by native peoples both medicinally and in beauty treatments to care for their skin. I founded AnthroSpa Logic after receiving my Ph.D. because I felt that a natural, […]
War: Morality vs. Rationality
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 war and mass annihilation has made a slight dent in this universal passion), […]
Minding Arab Fundamentalism
Gabriele Marranci, an anthropologist based at the National University of Singapore, writes at his blog on the revolts in Arab Countries and on how anthropologists have helped to perpetuate the myth of a fundamentalist Arab-Muslim mind: Although we need to acknowledge that each revolt finds its raison d’être in local contexts and issues, we have […]
Nuclear Allergy?
In the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese often proclaimed their society to be “allergic” to nuclear technology—particularly nuclear weapons. What has been far less acknowledged in Japan is a persistent pattern of discrimination against those deemed “contaminated” (including atomic-bomb survivors, descendants of the customary “untouchable” outcaste, certain foreigners, and other […]
Yemen’s Uprising
Daniel Martin Varisco, Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra University writes at CNN about the uprising in Yemen: While the world focuses on bombing raids in Libya, a different scenario has been unfolding in Yemen, which would be the first country outside of North Africa in this recent era of uprisings to lose its long-term strongman, Ali […]