Anthropology roundup: “Public e-seminar on media practices and the radical imagination”

  Public e-seminar on media practices and the radical imagination media/anthropology by John Postill By Veronica Barassi via EASA Media Anthropology Network mailing list We will be launching our next e-seminar on Tuesday 25 October 2016 at 00:00 GMT. If you are new to the list, our e-seminars run for a period of 2 weeks and … Read more

Anthropology roundup: Nancy Scheper-Hughes on the Catholic Church…”Dialogs before Suicide…

Nancy Scheper-Hughes shares reflections on the Catholic Church anthropologyworks by Culture In Global Affairs Republished with permission from Berkeley News Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Source: Berkeley News In her research, writing and teaching, medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes focuses especially on violence, suffering and premature death on the margins of the modern world. Best-known for her work on the … Read more

In the end, Bush won’t be prosecuted… #TortureReport

What Dick Cheney knew about the torture program Buried in the pages of the 525-page executive summary of the so-called CIAtorture report is a timeline showing when former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney was briefed about the program July 29, 2003: According to the report, Huge anti-police violence protests set for D.C. and NYC  Mashable! by Colin … Read more