The Anthropologists Who Undid Sex, Race, and Gender SAPIENS by Julia M. Klein Anthropologist Margaret Mead—a museum curator, a professor, a popular commentator, and an author, among other roles—was perhaps the most famous student of Franz Boas. Bettmann /Getty Images Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in … Read more
How Cultural Anthropologists Redefined Humanity The New Yorker/ 5h The New Yorker Louis Menand on the brave band of scholars who set out to save us from racism and sexism. The Neanderthal Diet—From Teeth to Guts SAPIENS by Anna Goldfield s about Neanderthals is that they were exclusively meat eaters. Sure, in some of the colder regions … Read more
10 Must-Read Books on Anthropology in Business and Design NAPAby Amy Santee / In 2011, when I first began my career as a researcher in the context of business and design, I knew almost nothing about the field I had decided to work in. I lacked a basic understanding of how products are designed, how businesses work, … Read more
My colleagues and fellow anthropologists Suncem and Ozan started a site that will focus on media anthropology developments in Turkey. It is based on a workshop that took place a few years ago and they are planning to boost the site content soon. An interview with me and more about the site can be found … Read more
Welcome to the Center’s first annual collaborative project in multimodality. We welcome your comments, reactions, and ideas going forward. George Marcus Director, Center for Ethnography UCI CENTER FOR ETHNOGRAPHY PRESENTS VISUALIZING TOXIC SUBJECTS 28 – 31 May 2019, Viewpoint Gallery (UCI Student Center) Curators: Kim Fortun and James Adams Invitation Visualizing Toxic Subjects is a collaborative … Read more
Why Symbols Aren’t Forever SAPIENS In 2018, a group of protestors pulled down Silent Sam, a Confederate statue that had long sat on the University of North Carolina Your Body as a Map SAPIENS For decades, two mummies lay in the British Museum concealing a secret. The ancient Egyptian pair, nicknamed Gebelein How We Found … Read more
AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF ANTHROPOLOGY: IS IT TIME TO SHIFT PARADIGMS? (372 pages) By Robert Borofsky Includes 35 Endorsements by Prominent Anthropologists from Australia, Canada, France, Norway, United Kingdom, and United States Center for a Public Anthropology (March 21, 2019) OPEN ACCESS A Print Copy for $20.00 can be ordered through Amazon after June 1, … Read more
Why the Myth of the “Savage Indian” Persists SAPIENS by Virginia McLaurin / Media portrayals of “good Indians” and “bad Indians” have shaped the minds of generations of Americans. Harold M. Lambert/Getty Images Peter Pan, the beloved children’s classic, is sure to stun modern readers with its descriptions of “redskins” carrying “tomahawks and knives,” their naked bodies … Read more
What 2018 Taught Us About Everything Human SAPIENS In the fall of 2018, thousands of migrants, mainly from Central America, approached the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping for an How A Mongolian Heavy Metal Band Got Millions Of YouTube Views WJCT NEWS How A Mongolian Heavy Metal Band Got Millions Of YouTube Views WJCT NEWS A band … Read more
Here is the link to the statement EASA’s Statement on Data Governance in Ethnographic Projects1 This statement describes some of the core methodical and ethical practices of ethnographic research.2 These practices have implications for the norms and forms of data management in ethnography.3 We issue this statement to help ethnographers respond to current mandates for … Read more
Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2018 HeritageDaily Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2018 HeritageDaily 1 – The world’s oldest known drawing. The earliest evidence of a drawing Publicity or Marginality? On the Question of Academic “Silencing” in Anthropology Open Anthropology Abstract What is “silencing” and is it out of place in the contemporary North American … Read more
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Remembering the French anthropologist on his 110th birth anniversary Firstpost Claude Lévi-Strauss: Remembering the French anthropologist on his 110th birth anniversary Firstpost Anthropologist: Tribe that killed missionary are ‘peace-loving people’ New York Post Anthropologist: Tribe that killed missionary are ‘peace-loving people’ New York Post Why Some People Thrive in Winter The Atlantic Why Some People Thrive in Winter The … Read more
Who are the Sentinelese? 60,000-yr-old tribe in focus after American John Chau’s death The News Minute Who are the Sentinelese? 60,000-yr-old tribe in focus after American John Chau’s death The News Minute The ‘isolated’ tribe that killed a 26-year-old American missionary has been contacted by the outside world at least 11 times before — here’s what happened INSIDER … Read more
Public Statement on the AAA’s “Repository for the Common Good” The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has recently announced its intention to create what its president has termed a repository for the common good—a “freely accessible repository for all kinds of anthropological knowledge, including article preprints, conference papers, technical monographs and gray literature reports, datasets, project … Read more
I have attended (or attending right now) this workshop. That was the reason I cut short my trip and got back to this fantastic workshop: UCI Open Anthropology Seminar Anthropological Publishing Through an Anthropological Lens FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 11:30-4:30 UCI (ROOM TBA) 11:30am: Introduction and lunch 12:00pm: Launching a New, Open Access Journal: Teaching and Learning … Read more