Archaeologists Should Be Activists Too SAPIENS by Allison Mickel and Kyle Olson Archaeologists are well-suited to help organize protests such as this “Count the Vote” rally in 2020. Jon Irons When Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, paused counting votes for one night during the 2020 presidential election, unfounded conspiracy theories about election security began to fly. Peru’s Incan Rope Bridges … Read more
Six Reasons to Save Archaeology From Funding Cuts SAPIENS by John Schofield / Archaeology offers a detailed look at humanity’s past and important insights into the present and future. Jo Ahmet/Kent County Council This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Archaeology is in trouble. The U.K. government recently announced plans to cut its subsidy … Read more
We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Read our full statement here: https://t.co/BWxrHgEs6H #SaveSheikhJarrah #FreePalestine — MidEastAnthro (@mes_aaa) May 14, 2021 MES Statement on Palestine We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people against ongoing settler colonialism and condemn Zionist violence against them, including forced evictions and retaliatory violence by Israeli state forces against … Read more
A Great Tree Has Fallen: The Passing of Marshall Sahlins – CounterPunch.org CounterPunch A Great Tree Has Fallen: The Passing of Marshall Sahlins – Marshall D. Sahlins, titan of anthropology, 1930–2021 UChicago News Remembering Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021) | The Chicago Blog UChicago News Remembering Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021) | The Chicago Blog Marshall D. Sahlins, Groundbreaking Anthropologist, Dies … Read more
It is said to see anthropology lost two of its major voices. I remembered the day Rabinow was at the Rice when I was a doctoral student. For those who do not know who Sahlins and Rabinow are.
The Untold Stories of Archaeology’s Women SAPIENS by Brenna Hassett, Suzanne Pilaar Birch, Rebecca Wragg Sykes, and Tori Herridge For Women’s History Month, it has become traditional to rifle through the great names of the past, pluck out a few that strike the imagination and have the appropriate gender marker, and dust them off for a new audience. … Read more
Cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson dies at 81 Today.com Cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson dies at 81 In Europe, more than two thirds of all academic anthropologists are living in precarity antropologi.info (via FocaalBlog) In the general public, academics are often viewed as being part of an elite, who lives comfortable lives. In reality this is only true for … Read more
Anthropology Day Photo Contest FoodAnthropology Festival Oyster Grillers, New Orleans, June 1, 2019, photo by David Beriss If you have food anthropology related photos that you want to be famous, SAFN wants to hear from you! We have decided to hold a food anthropology photography competition for Anthropology Day (2/18) this year. Our goal is to collect … Read more
What Makes Vaccines Social? SAPIENS by Emily Brunson and Monica Schoch-Spana Summary container all summary markers are relative to this container: do not change the id (3) [no-caption] Luis Alvarez/Getty Images Now is a pressing time for vaccinating the U.S. population (and the world) against COVID-19. But there are social hurdles that need to be addressed. … Read more
A Startling Link Between Neanderthals and COVID-19 SAPIENS by Daniel Salas [no-caption] Angus Krieg SAPIENS host Chip Colwell speaks with evolutionary geneticist Hugo Zeberg about his surprising discovery of a connection between Neanderthal DNA and a greater risk for severe COVID-19. Zeberg is also a researcher at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary … Read more
Anthropology Image Representation – The Power of Images SAPIENS Anthropology Image Representation – The Power of Images SAPIENS The headlines and powerful prose of the anthropologists and journalists who write for SAPIENS draw our readers in Zeit and again. But, as the art coordinator for the magazine, I also like to think that the images play an important role in … Read more
How to Write an Essay: A Guide for Anthropologists SAPIENS by Nicola Jones [no-caption] FilippoBacci/GettyImages For academics used to the idea of “publish or perish,” writing may seem to be a well-practiced and even perfected skill. But trying out a new writing style for a new audience—from crafting a tweet to penning an essay for the general public—can … Read more
Meanings of masks Meanings of masks Massachusetts Institute of Technology New ways to think about and practice protective masking, from faculty in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. In this series of commentaries inspired by an idea from associate professor of literature Sandy Alexandre, MIT faculty draw on their discipline expertise to offer … Read more
The new Anthropology Journal Ticker (beta): Get updated with recent open access journal articles! antropologi.info – anthropology in the n. How do you stay up to date with the most recent journal articles in anthropology? How do you navigate the growing amount of texts? How do you find something interesting? While most academics might have their … Read more
David Graeber: 1961-2020 Neuroanthropology Anthropologist, activist, and author David Graeber, author of some of the most popular and cutting recent works in our discipline, has passed away at 59 according to his widow, artist and writer Nika Dubrovsky. Some news outlets are saying that the causes are unknown; other suggest he had contracted COVID. David Graeber, Driving … Read more