Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology special issue: ?Multispecies Ethnography” and an anthro roundup…

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?Multispecies Ethnography”: a special issue of Cultural Anthropology from Somatosphere by Eugene Raikhel J ust when you thought it was safe to engage in human exceptionalism?. Cultural Anthropology comes along with a special issue on ?Multispecies Ethnography. ? Anthropology and the Long Essay from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog … Read more

Anthropology at Howard University needs our attention…

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Anthropology on the Ropes at Howard from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog by Matt Some faculty at Howard University write: Dear Friends and Colleagues, This is a Call for Action regarding the possible closing of the Anthropology Program at Howard University. On September 23, 2010, Howard University President Sidney … Read more

Neanderthals, more favorable now…

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Anthropologists adopt a more favorable view of Neanderthals from Wash Post Europe by Marc Kaufman Scientists are broadly rethinking the nature, skills and demise of the Neanderthals of Europe and Asia, steadily finding more ways that they were substantially like us and quite different from the limited, unchanging and ultimately doomed inferiors most commonly described … Read more

E-workshop on digital and media anthropology starts at EASA Media Anthropology network.

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E-workshop on digital and media anthropology starts now!! from media/anthropology by John Postill ** via Media Anthropology Network mailing list ** Dear All Welcome to our e-workshop on digital and media anthropology! As I said in a previous announcement, we thought it would be interesting to continue on this mailing list the face-to-face conversations we … Read more

CNN on Intel’s cultural anthropologist

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Intel’s cultural anthropologist CNN By Michael V. Copeland FORTUNE — About 40 Ph.D. studentsin computer science, potential recruits for chip-giant Intel, have just finished listening to a lecture on the intricacies of circuit design and processor architecture at one of the company’s R&D centers just outside Portland, Ore. The conversation is complex, detailed, and very … Read more

Virtual issue on Water by Cultural Anthropology

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VIRTUAL ISSUE: WATER – CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS AND COMMENTARY from Cultural Anthropology by acarse CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS AND COMMENTARY BY STEFAN HELMREICH Authors were posed the following questions, their answers follow: TWO BOOKS TO ANNOUNCE: News Online Transformations and Continuities Graham Meikle and Guy Redden Palgrave Macmillan Introduction: Transformation and Continuity – Graham … Read more

Anthropologi.info reports from EASA conference

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Secret knowledge exchange at Europe’s largest anthropology conference from antropologi.info – anthropology in the news blog by Lorenz A bit more than two weeks ago, around 1300 anthropologists from all over Europe left the university village Maynooth not far away from Dublin. Europe?s largest anthropology conference, the biennial congress of The European Association of Social … Read more

“Pine Cone Anthropology in Afghanistan

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The Loaded Goat: Revisiting Pine Cone Anthropology in Afghanistan from OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by M. Jamil Hanifi The diary of Ted the Tongue reveals more about the poverty of the academic thinking and conduct that provisions the ?Comparative Cultural Competence? (or is it ?Cross-Cultural Competence??) component of the U.S. Army?s Human Terrain System (HTS) than the … Read more

Erkan in Ireland to attend EASA 2010 conference (#easa2010)

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11th EASA Biennial Conference: Maynooth, Ireland 24-27th August 2010 Crisis and imagination I have arrived Maynooth, a beautiful town near Dublin, Ireland. There are several Turkish friends attending and we did hang out today in the streets of Maynooth. Our sign of Turkishness today included passing on red lights (as passengers of course- green lights … Read more

Search Open Access Anthropology Journals

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“An archive of interviews with anthropologists

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An archive of interviews with anthropologists from Somatosphere by Eugene Raikhel Alan Macfarlane interviews Clifford Geertz in 2004. As a number of anthro blogs have mentioned in the past, Alan Macfarlane, of the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge, has assembled a massive online archive of video materials, including a lot of in-depth interviews with … Read more

Erkan’s Field Diary, one of the top antro blogs…

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  To better phrase, this blog is in the top 10 blogs produced by anthropologists. My blog is not an exclusively anthropology blog (it could never make it so Savage Minds blogroll) but still maintained by an anthropologist…   check out here or here

antropologi.info asks “The return of colonial anthropology?/ anthro roundup

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The return of colonial anthropology?

from antropologi.info – anthropology in the news blog by Lorenz

?A dysfunctional ethnic and tribal brawl has been the norm in Afghanistan for centuries. Afghanistan is a mess. ? Who said that? A frustrated U.S. military officer? No, a professor of anthropology, Robert L. Moore.

In his article Tribes, Corruption Ail Afghanistan in The Ledger he shares his concerns about the difficulties for ?us? (=the U.S. military) to ?push this contentious country into the 21st century? and turn it into a ?normal, stable country? that will be ?governable in the way that most nations are”.

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19 July. Deadline for Independent Assessment of Human Terrain System…

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2500 Year Old Anatolian Face: A University of Otago team has re-created the face of a 2500-year-old Turkish peasant, its second such project, and hopes its technology will be used in courts in coming years. University of Otago senior lecturer in anatomy and structural biology Dr George Dias, who heads the group, the only one … Read more

Antro roundup: “Why anthropology proves Toy Story 3 is not sexist” and more

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Why anthropology proves Toy Story 3 is not sexist from An Eye on the Culture Wars by Dr. K A sad, strange little review of the new Toy Story movie in Ms. Magazine has kept me busy blogging on their site. You can see my responses to the conversation going on there but I thought I would … Read more