George Stocking Jr., ‘Anthropology’s Anthropologist,’ Dies at 84 New York Times George W. Stocking Jr., a historian of science who chronicled the norms, customs and tribal beliefs of modern anthropologists, documenting a history of racial bias and ethnocentrism as well as great insights, died on July 13 in Chicago. He was 84 Anthropologists as Spies This piece … Read more
Savage Minds Interview: Kristina Killgrove Kristina Killgrove is a biological anthropologist at the University of West Florida. Her research focuses on theorizing migration in antiquity and on understanding urban development and collapse through the analysis of human skeletal remains. She works primarily in the classical world, attempting to learn about the daily lives of the … Read more
Trash anthropology in NYC For years, Robin Nagle was anthropologist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation Blood Is Their Argument: anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon During the brief moment that I majored in anthropology in college, I was fascinated by the work of Napoleon A. Chagnon and his seminal 1968 text Yanomamo: The … Read more
Tomorrow’s engineers will learn architecture, anthropology, sociology as well Economic Times Sitting in his office in the German university town of Chemnitz, ArvedHuebler often thinks of the poor in rural India. Huebler is a physicist, a professor at the Chemnitz University of Technology and director of the Institute for Print and Media . Bureaucracies … Read more
Labor unrest on Everest is older than you might think from FP Passport by Marya Hannun The thin air and vertiginous slopes that exist at 20,000-plus feet above sea level on Mount Everest may not make for the ideal battleground — but they certainly make for a captivating one. So on April 27, when … Read more
Anthropologists and Ecological Research Last fall a group of anthropologists participated in the 2012 All Scientists Meeting (ASM) of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network in Estes Park, Colorado. They were there to make a case for integrating more anthropologists into the study of ecosystems. Read about their experience in Anthropology News. Below is … Read more
Anthropologist investigates African penis theft from Boing Boing by David Pescovitz Penis thefts are on the rise again in West and Central Africa. UC Berkeley cultural anthropologist/geographer Louisa Lombard investigated while visiting the tiny village of Tiringoulou. According to the town doctor, “Western medicine is no match for this magic. It is a mysterious thing.? … Read more
Studying anthropology in Iran Zahra Abtahi Well, for this post, I decided to write a little about anthropology in Iran’s universities, to make you a bit familiar about its situation in Iran’s educational system. Anthropology is almost a new academic program in Iran, dating back to around 50 years ago. Still, there is a conflict … Read more