AAA Membership Votes Down Academic Boycott Resolution June 6, 2016: In a close vote, the AAA membership voted against the resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. Fifty-one percent of AAA’s eligible members voted, the largest turnout in AAA history, with 2,423 members opposing the resolution, and 2,384 voting to support it. The membership has spoken … Read more
Ephemeral Layers: Coffee, Snapchat, and Violence Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Uzma Z. Rizvi For decades, ephemeral layers at archaeological sites have been the bane of my existence. The moment I read, hear, or have to confront it at an excavation, my soul does a smh. How can we … Read more
Partha Chatterjee: Why I Support the Boycott of Israeli Institutions Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Carole McGranahan [Savage Minds is honored to publish this essay by Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, and of the Centre for the Studies … Read more
Anthropology and the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions: Part 1 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Jessica Winegar Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions. We are pleased to present the following two reflections by Mick Taussig and J. Lorand Matory as part of … Read more
Lawrence of Arabia as anthropologist To be honest, I was surprised how much attention Peter O?Toole?s recent passing received. We all knew he was famous, but we also learned this week how deeply he was loved. Many people loved him because he had that one thing that is so hard to find in the entertainment … Read more