Professionalization in Anthropology Graduate Programs Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Rachel Newcomb. Many of us find the transition from graduate school to the world of the gainfully employed to be a challenging one. One moment, you?re happily ensconced in a library carrel, surrounded by your beloved field notes and cranking away at your dissertation. The … 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
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
The Afflictions Series: An Interview with Ethnographic Filmmaker Robert Lemelson by Neely Myers from Somatosphere by Neely Myers When Robert Lemelson, an anthropologist, filmmaker, and research professor at UCLA, recently visited the George Washington University to speak at a conference on how ethnographic films can help us understand torture, I had to request an interview. … Read more
?Gate to Hell? in Turkey Found by Archaeologist from Yahoo News Photos ‘Gate to hell’ in Turkey found: Researchers said recently they found the so-called “gate to hell,” which was described in ancient Greek and Roman mythology, in Turkey . Example ‘conjugal visit’ rooms introduced in eastern province from Hurriyet Daily News Rooms where inmates … Read more
‘Noble Savages’ Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon talks to Inside Higher Ed about his new book, Noble Savages, and his lengthy and exceptionally controversial career. The New York Times on Chagnon from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog by Ryan I received this link via the e-anth listserv and thought I would … Read more
40,000-year old “Lion Man” from Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog by Dienekes Ice Age Lion Man is world?s earliest figurative sculpture Even more exciting than the discovery of new pieces, the sculpture?s age has been refined using radio-carbon dating of other bones found in the strata. This reveals a date of 40,000 years ago, while until recently … Read more
Now we are seven from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog by Rex This week Savage Minds turns seven years old. It?s been a great, tumultuous seven years. Although regular readers may not know it, behind the scenes we at Savage Minds have contemplated closing down the blog numerous times, … Read more
Media Anthropology Network Free e-seminar on Friedrich Kittler, 28 Feb-13 March 2012 from media/anthropology by John Postill The EASA Media Anthropology Network is well known for its electronic seminars which run on our mailing list for a period of two weeks. These are moderated sessions that unfold around a working paper presented by a Network … Read more
Victoria?s Secret model in Istanbul from Hurriyet Daily News Victoria?s Secret model Ana Beatriz Barros arrived in Turkey on Feb. 9 for the Istanbul Fashion Week. Speaking to press members in the airport, Barros answered the questions of press members at a press conference. Istanbul’s Cultural Rebirth New York Times Istanbul, which went from … Read more
HOT SPOTS: REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN EGYPT Submitted by Cultural Anthro… on Tue, 2012-01-31 11:54 Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt a Year after January 25th Guest Editors: Julia Elyachar (University of California, Irvine) and Jessica Winegar (Northwestern University) On January 25, 2011, Egyptians from all social backgrounds marched to public squares across Egypt and began an 18 day revolution … Read more
Anthropology & Open Access: An Interview with Jason Baird Jackson (Part 1 of 3) from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog by Ryan During the last few weeks I had the chance to conduct an email based interview with Jason Baird Jackson about Open Access (OA), academic publishing, and anthropology? … Read more
winner: Frances Norwood, assistant research professor in the GW Department of Anthropology 2011 Margaret Mead Award announced from anthropologyworks by admin Congratulations to Frances Norwood, assistant research professor in the GW Department of Anthropology, for being selected to receive the 2011 Margaret Mead Award for her book, The Maintenance of Life: Preventing Social Death through … Read more
A Response to the Recent Attacks on Professor Frances Fox Piven from American Anthropological Association by Joslyn O. AAA was one of 23 academic organizations that released a joint statement of response to the recent attacks on Professor Frances Fox Piven, renown professor of the University of New York Graduate Center. The statement condemns Glenn Beck, radio and television personality, … Read more