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Anthropology roundup: “AAA Membership Votes Down Academic Boycott Resolution

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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

Anthropology roundup: “Mobile apps and the material world…

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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

Anthropology roundup: ” Collaborations between ethnographers and data scientists…”Weaponizing Anthropology

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Finding The Anthropology In Latin Dance Music WNPR News “If I’m going to talk about dancing, I’m going to try to look at a very deep and emotional and anthropological, even biological side, of it,” he says. “What it means, music and dancing, for us, as a species.” Drexler is not your ordinary songwriter: He .   Weaponizing Anthropology: … Read more

Anthropology roundup: Anthropology Blogs 2014…Human Terrain System…

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  Anthropology Blogs 2014 Anthropology Blogs are a way to understand What is Anthropology. For 2014 I revisited the previous 2013 Anthropology Blogs and 2012 Anthropology Blogs. The blogs included here have all published since June 2013. New Resource for Emerging Anthropologists Two important lessons we learned at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Chicago: 1. Recent graduates in anthropology are … Read more

Anthropology roundup: “Lawrence of Arabia as anthropologist…”Anthropologists Respond to Gender-Citation Disparity

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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

Media Anthropology Network re-launched

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