Anthropology

Ian McEwan and the anthropologists

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Ian McEwan, Jingpo villagers, and the anthropologist

from Culture Matters by Third Tone Devil

In Ian McEwan?s new novel, Solar, an anthropologist of science named Nancy Temple causes the downfall of the hero, Michael Beard, a Nobel laurate physicist, by resigning from a committee he heads in protest to his statement that women are just not as interested in physics as men, and this has to do with biological differences. The press then accuses Beard of being a social Darwinist, a eugenicist and a hegemon, and digs out his womanizing to compound the evidence of him being a misogynist.

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“AAA Annual Meeting Call for Papers Now Open (#AAA2010)

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Special issue of Science as Culture on Identity and Narrative in STS from Somatosphere by Eugene Raikhel The latest issue of Science as Culture focuses on a topic which has long been central to cultural anthropology, but remains relatively novel in science and technology studies (STS): first-person narrative and the relationship between scholars and their … Read more

“Human Terrain on Google Ads?

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Human Terrain on Google Ads? from ethnografix by Ryan Anderson Well, this wasn’t expected. So I was checking out an anthropology-related site a while ago, just to see what was going on around those parts. And I noticed an interesting ad in the Google sidebar (which is common on many blogs and others sites): Wherefore … Read more

“Anthropology Professor’s Book Inspires Oscar-Nominated Film/ A review essay on Anthropology blogging

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Anthropology Professor’s Book Inspires Oscar-Nominated Film Harvard Crimson Harvard Associate Professor of Anthropology Kimberly Theidon had no idea that her 2004 book of essays, ?Entre Prójimos,? inspired the Oscar-nominated Review Essay: Blogging Anthropology: Savage Minds, Zero Anthropology, and AAA Blogs AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Vol. 112, Issue 1, pp. 140?148, ISSN 0002-7294 online ISSN 1548-1433. c2010 by … Read more

AAA members declare their support for Honduras resistance against the Coup

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AAA Members Vote to Support Honduras Resolution from American Anthropological Association by Brian The following is a message from AAA Secretary Debra Martin: Dear AAA Member: As the Secretary of the American Anthropological Association, I am pleased to report to you the results of our latest ballot initiative. At the most recent annual meeting, a … Read more

Recent anthro work on Love….

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The latest on love from anthropologyworks by admin What do cultural anthropologists know about love? To mark Valentine?s Day, a widely celebrated occasion in the United States, I did some research. Using the Anthropology Plus database available through my university library, and with love as my only search term, I came up with the following … Read more

AAA deadlines

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We?re Back: Eye on Deadlines

from American Anthropological Association by Dinah

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“Anthropology Journals ranked by the ARC”

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Anthropology Journals ranked by the ARC

from Culture Matters by gregdowney

The Australian Research Council has released its 2010 list of journals, ranked into four grades: A*, A, B, and C (with a few listed as ?unranked?). The complete list can be accessed through the ARC website here, but it?s a large Excel file (5.27 mb). The list is part of an audit of university research initially proposed by the last government. As the ARC?s website explains:

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Savage Minds Anthropology Journalism (and an anthro roundup)

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How to write an anthropology book that people will read?

from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog by Joana and Pal

Many thanks to Kerim and Alex for inviting us to Savage Minds to share our experiences writing Seeing Culture Everywhere, a book that explicitly targets a general audience. Over the next two weeks we?ll be writing both about the pervasive use of the concept ?culture? in a broad range of global, national and interpersonal settings, as well as about the challenges and successes we encountered in our effort to popularize anthropological perspectives in two settings, Germany and the US.

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CEAUSSIC continues its work.

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CEAUSSIC: Ethics Casebook

from American Anthropological Association by Brian
Dr. Laura McNamara

?The AAA?s Ad Hoc Commission on Anthropology?s Engagement with the Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC) continues its work. Our main activities at present include: 1. the writing of a report to the AAA on the widely and hotly debated Human Terrain System of the U.S. Army, 2. The editing of a casebook illustrating the diversity of kinds of practicing anthropology, including associated ethical questions, with a primary emphasis upon the security sector broadly conceived, 3. And providing support for the AAA?s ongoing ethics process. In an effort to keep our work transparent and part of the public and disciplinary discussion of all of the above, CEAUSSIC is also going to be contributing a monthly entry to the AAA?s blog. Each entry, by different CEAUSSIC members, will address topics that have arisen or that we have been thinking about, which we will continue to discuss via the blog, a discussion in which we hope you will also participate.?

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Anthro research hit the news: Don’t trust the number of Facebook friends:)

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Well, as a person who has more than a thousand friends in Facebook, I had already experienced that, now we scientify it (!):

Brain Can’t Handle More Than 150 Facebook Friends Finds Oxford Boffin
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A professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University has found out that human beings are physically limited to being able to link up and manage up

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“Escorted Ethnography

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Army’s Anthropology Teams Under Fire, But in Demand National Defense Magazine A November report by the American Anthropological Association’s Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Escorted Ethnography: Ethics, the Human Terrain System and American Anthropology in Conflict. Daily, Eric from eScholarship Repository Despite claims that the U.S. military?s new … Read more

HTS people are advised to read The Deceivers

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I Hope That The Human Terrain Teams Read The Deceivers by John Masters: An Anthropological Novel

from Ethnography.com by Tony

One of my favorite all-time historical novels is The Deceivers by John Masters. Published in 1952, the protagonist William Savage is an administrator in a remote district for the British East Indian Company. The book is set in 1825. Savage speaks four Indian languages, and has spent 19 years in the colonial service. As a colonial administrator, he is ?the law? in his district. But to do this, he lives in an Indian village, embedded in Indian cultures and languages. No garrisoned ?Forward Operating Base? with a VCR, pool table, video games, or other comforts of home for him!

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T. Boellstorff: Coming of Age in Second Life

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I recently finished reading Tom Boellstorff’s Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. As an anthropologist Prof. Boellstroff added another site to the Archive of anthropology. It surely became a must-read in the growing anthropological literature on cybercultures. My major concern is what he repeatedly insists (also in the quotation … Read more

Anthro roundup- AAA Issues Report on Human Terrain Teams and more

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AAA meeting round-up: What did all those anthropologists talk about? from antropologi.info  by Lorenz Three weeks ago, anthropologists from all over the world met in Philadelphia at the annual meerting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). What did all those anthropologists talk about during the largest anthropology meeting in the world? This is no easy … Read more