William Beeman on Libya
A PressTV interview with Professor William Beeman, Chairman of Anthropology department of University of Minnesota “The US led the regularization of relations with Colonel Gaddafi, after he had given up his nuclear program, which in my opinion was non-existent anyway. But the US issued a declaration saying this is a new era of friendship, legitimizing […]
American Treasures: Two Archaeologists Host a Discovery Channel Series
Kirk French from Pen State department of Anthropology and Jason De Leon, from the university of Michigan star in a Discovery Channel 10-episode series. In a interview to centerdaily.com we learn that “’Artifact or Fiction’ was the original name of the show, but just weeks before the show’s air date, The Discovery Channel changed it […]
Anthropologists Write on Arab Uprisings and US Foreign Policy
Paul Stoller in BigGovernment.com: “If my many years living as a field anthropologist in sub-Saharan Africa are applicable, most senior diplomats appear to be far removed from the realities of the street…. With some exceptions, I would suggest, most of our senior diplomats and political officials do not know the street.” Saba Mahmood in The Nation: The […]
An Anthropologist’s Diary of the Egyptian Uprising
Another anthropologist reporting from Egypt.
::antropologi.info:: Anthropologists on Egypt Uprisings
Check out this compilation of what anthropologists have been saying about the Egypt uprisings on the anthropology blog ::antropologi.info:: “A wonderful development” – Anthropologists on the Egypt Uprising (updated) 02/02/11 by Lorenz A protester in Cairo’s Tahrir Square has a simple message for Mubarak. On February 1, demonstrators held a “Million-Man March” in the city, […]
::antropologi.info:: Social and Cultural Anthropology in the News
Check out this post about alternatives to our current dominant economic system on the anthropology blog ::antropologi.info:: ” Use Anthropology to Build a Human Economy Anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, economists and activists have come together and written a citizen guide for a human economy. In The Human Economy more than 30 authors from 15 countries show […]
Is Anthropology a Science?
From The Brian Lehrer Show, December 14, 2010, anthropologists Hugh Gusterson (executive boardmember of the American Anthropological Association and professor of Anthropology at George Mason University) and Peter N. Peregrine (president of the Society for Anthropological Sciences and professor of Anthropology at Lawrence University) discuss the removal of the word ‘science’ from The American Anthropological […]
A Good Christian Daughter
Syriac Woman: So, Sarah, where do your parents live? Sarah: Well, my mother lives in the U.S., and my father lives here in the Netherlands. Syriac Woman: Oh. So…they’re…divorced? Sarah: Yes…it happened a few years ago. Syriac Woman: So when you’re at home you live with your mother… but why don’t you live with your […]
The End of Summer, Part 2
So, what have I learned about medical anthropology in Bolivia? A lot, although I’ve only begun scratching the surface of all these topics. For a med-anth dork like myself, this is a great situation- it seems like every day, some new potential research topic reveals itself to me. The excitement of discovering interesting local issues […]
The Keeper of the Kris
**This is a special feature from the September 2010 issue of Anthropology Now. In “The Keeper of the Kris,” Janet Hoskins reviews Ann Dunham Soetoro’s book, Surviving against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia.** If she were alive today, Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham Soetoro, would be 67. The president’s mother was portrayed in Obama’s […]