Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to extend its original series on this blog in light of a boycott vote at the November 2015 American Anthropological Association meetings. Endorsed by Jewish Voice for Peace and over 1000 anthropologists, a pro-boycott resolution will be up for vote at the AAA Business Meeting at 6:15 pm on Friday, November 20. It is Resolution #2 on the docket. This post debunks common myths about the boycott, and urges all attending anthropologists to VOTE YES on #2 at the meeting.
An article made the rounds of social media recently on whether or not the for-profit website academia.edu is outflanking the open access movement. It’s a great article that I’d encourage people to read closely. Academia.edu, in case you didn’t know, is basically tumblr for academics — a bunch of hosted blog sites tied together into a social network. I am deeply ambivalent about academia.edu (and its more sciency cousin Research Gate) but in the end I use the site and even accepted one of the many ‘editorships’ they provided to people, which allows you to rate up content on their site.
Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice
- Sarah Pink – RMIT University
- Heather Horst – RMIT University
- John Postill – RMIT University
- Larissa Hjorth – RMIT University
- Tania Lewis – RMIT University
- Jo Tacchi – RMIT University
This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and theoretical dimensions are increasingly intertwined.
ABSTRACT
Anthropologists are interested in understanding patterns of human variation, whether assessed along cultural, biological, linguistic, or material metrics. Epigenetics, the study of heritable chemical modifications to DNA, is an emerging approach that could enrich modern anthropological research. Epigenetic marks can change in response to many of the processes anthropologists study—for example, migration, nutritional stress, psychosocial stress, and social inequalities, to name a few.
Your chance to learn the bare bones of forensic anthropology
Beverley Guardian
The course is designed to enhance a learner’s knowledge and understanding of forensic science with specific reference to forensic anthropology, giving a unique opportunity to study forensic science with hands-on experience of real human remains.
This paper used the same data as the Allentoft et al. paper, but instead of focusing on the human DNA recovered from ancient Eurasians, it went looking for interesting stuff in the non-human DNA (the stuff that is usually thrown away).
MJC anthropologist feels rock star adoration at lecture
Modesto Bee (blog)
Modesto Junior College professor of anthropology Debra Bolter, in her office last month, shows her current research project, the bones and skull of a juvenile male primate from the Malapa cave in the same Cradle of Life region in South Africa where the
From the editor: Attending the AAA meetings in Denver? The announcement below is for an event that looks into legalized marijuana in Colorado. This will no doubt touch on many aspects of the new legal and business context for marijuana, including the culinary and nutritional…and so may be of interest to SAFN members attending the conference.
Extinct Antelope Species identified in India | Rice UniversityAnthropologist
The Indian Panorama
August Costa, adjunct lecturer in anthropology and principal investigator of the study, and his colleagues at Yale University and the American Museum of Natural History discovered Sivacobus sankaliai, a member of an extinct family of Asian antelopes ..
Engaged Anthropology: The AAA’s Task Force Report on Israel/Palestine
Jadaliyya
On 5 October 2015, the American Anthropological Association’s Task Force on Israel/Palestine released the final report it had been tasked to undertake by the AAA Executive Board in 2014. The Task Force was charged with developing recommendations for
Sampled Neandertals (from Europe, the Caucasus, and Siberia) certainly had lower effective population size than living humans, but I wonder what the comparison would be between ancient tribes of modern humans and Neandertals in the Near East where admixture presumably took place.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/030387
The Genetic Cost of Neanderthal Introgression
Kelley Harris, Rasmus Nielsen
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