Findings, Part 2: sample from Issue #2 of Anthropology Now
Findings is a new, regular column contribution appearing in the magazine, Anthropology Now. Each column highlights emerging anthropological research through a series of short reviews co-authored and co-edited by a diverse student collective from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The website is happy to be able to offer a sample of this column appearing in the new Fall issue #2 of Anthropology Now. Click on the ‘Read more’ link below to begin reading!
Sneaking Across the Israeli Palestinian Border
Avram Bornstein, anthropologist at John Jay college in New York City, discusses his fieldwork with Palestinian day-laborers, the experiencing of circumventing Israeli checkpoints at dawn, the concept of structural violence, and impossibility of objectivity in the American Media. Read more to listen to and download the podcast!
Findings, Part 1: sample from Issue #2 of Anthropology Now
Findings is a new, regular column contribution appearing in the magazine, Anthropology Now. Each column highlights emerging anthropological research through a series of short reviews co-authored and co-edited by a diverse student collective from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The website is happy to be able to offer a sample of this column appearing in the new Fall issue #2 of Anthropology Now.
On Anthropological Secrets
Anthropologists, like all scholars, have their secrets. Anthropology Now, however, is dedicated to openness and participation, and as such, the online education section will help makes sense of some of those secrets to the interested layperson.
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Coming Soon!
Be on the lookout for a blog style ‘press watch’ about anthropology and anthropologists in the news.
A Machinery of Mirrors
Behind the fence of the top secret Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California, scientists have just finished building the most powerful laser in the world. The National Ignition Facility (NIF), as it is called, is a magnificently wasteful piece of engineering at the very frontier of the possible. I think of it as America’s answer to the pyramids. The NIF enables scientists to play with the powers of the gods, creating conditions found inside stars and nuclear explosions half a mile away from a suburban housing development. It was built at a cost of about $4 billion, and yet hardly anyone in America has even heard of it. Lavishly funded by Congress, profiled in the unread science sections of the nation’s newspapers, investigated by countless commissions, spied upon by the nation’s enemies, it is hidden in plain view. What is it for? people ask when I tell them about it. As we shall see, this is not a simple question […]
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Part I: Re-Starting A Conversation
What happens when Palestinians are given the chance to comment on Palestine related US news? Join anthropologist Amahl Bishara this summer as she goes to the field in Palestine to find out!
Becoming Monsters in Iraq
As many as 40 percent of combat veterans returning from Iraq are crippled from psychological problems. A growing number of anti-war veterans acknowledge the toll of post-traumatic stress, but refuse to let their suffering be claimed as a disorder. Instead, they see the trauma as the natural reaction to the acts of war.