As part of the continuing Culture in Global Affairs program at the Elliott School, please join us for a talk tomorrow with Dr. Frances Norwood of the Inclusion Research Institute.
Euthanasia, Social Death and U.S. Health Care Reform: Policy Lessons from The Netherlands
Friday, October 30, 12 pm – 1:30 pm
1957 E Street NW, Room 505
Frances Norwood, [...]
by Barbara Miller
A loud and hopeful buzz on twitter about toilets and women’s empower in India has followed the publication of an article in the Washington Post on October 12 that has been picked up by CNN and other mainstream media. “No toilet no bride” is the slogan of a growing number of families when [...]
by Barbara Miller
Babylon has had its ups and downs over many hundreds of years. It is currently in a down phase thanks to the US war and occupation.
Located on the Euphrates River, about an hour’s drive south of Baghdad, it was the world’s largest city at its height with a population of over 200,000. The [...]
• Missing link media star fades
The much-hyped fossil nicknamed “Ida,” discovered in May 2009 was the subject of a rapidly produced book and television show about her place in prehistory as a “missing link” in the human-primate line. More recent detailed analysis questions that claim, saying Ida is an ancient primate but part of a [...]
This is the start of a new regular feature here at AnthroWorks, Must read, which will highlight the most interesting books we’re reading right now.
by Barbara Miller
Media commentary was flying fast and thick in September 2009 about soft drinks and their relationship to high rates of obesity in the United States, and whether or not [...]
• Social networking vs. social class in England?
People who do not embrace the web will be increasingly cut off from its professional and financial benefits, warns David Zeitlyn, a social (cultural) anthropologist at the University of Kent, England, thus leading to an ever larger digital divide in England. The country’s poorer North East is the [...]
by Barbara Miller
Paul Farmer walks on water for a lot of people around the world, from Haitian villagers he has treated in his clinic to my GW students who he has inspired with his writings. So what to think when one of my favorite economists, Bill Easterly, zaps him in an opinion piece in The [...]
by Barbara Miller
One of the most unusual aspects of Rwanda’s genocide that continues to shock and puzzle, 13 years after the killings, is the high level of civilian participation. Other distinguishing characteristics are the speed of the civilian mobilization, the extensive geographic spread of the killing throughout the country, the velocity of the violence, and [...]
• Too Poor to Do the Right Thing
Many people in the United States can no longer afford to bury or cremate their dead loved ones due to the so-called economic downturn. According to an article in the New York Times, “Coroners and medical examiners across the country are reporting spikes in the number of unclaimed [...]
by Barbara Miller
Merrill Singer’s 1989 article “The Coming of Age of Critical Medical Anthropology” is a landmark contribution in shaping the direction of critical medical anthropology. In its conclusion, he lists seven tasks that I paraphrase as:
Contributing to the political economy of health.
Analyzing micro-macro relations.
Studying power relations at global and local levels.
Clarifying the meaning of [...]
