The following list was determined by a panel of one, though, as you can see, many of the choices are externally validated. Congratulations to one and all!
Best Student Essays in Public Anthropology: The public anthropology award winners of 2009 are 19 students in Diana French’s Anthropology 100 class, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, at the University [...]
UPDATE: The following essay has been slightly revised to take into account a reader’s correction.
Should we be on tip-toes waiting for big business to save the earth? How long can we hold that pose? My feet hurt already.
Jared Diamond (Wiki, UCLA bio 1, UCLA bio 2), often mistaken by the media as an anthropologist, published [...]
My scan of “Dissertation Abstracts International” (not an international list by any means, but mainly U.S.) for 2009 dissertations in cultural anthropology was both heart-warming and heart-breaking. The good news is that so many excellent dissertations were completed in 2009. As these dissertations demonstrate, anthropologists are increasingly producing knowledge that the world needs.
The bad [...]
This blog came into being in late August 2009. Four months later, about 1,000 people visit per month from 70 countries. The United States provides the largest number, about half. Of those, most live in and around Washington, D.C. Canada is next, followed by the UK. Happily, there are visitors from so many other [...]
• Mexican national award to U.S. anthropology professor
Antonio N. Zavaleta, professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, received the Premio Otli Award. It is given by the Mexican government to non-Mexican citizens who work to improve the quality of life for Mexican citizens living abroad.
• Australian of the [...]
Chagas disease affects 8 – 10 million people in the Americas. Previously limited to the rural poor, it is spreading to the poor of urban areas. A qualitative, interview-based study (PDF file) of five per-urban communities of Arequipa shows that men who have recently migrated to the city’s “new shantytowns” from the countryside are most [...]
After President Obama’s visit to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, I sent out a tweet on December 10 saying his speech was dynamite, but that I wished he had taken Anthropology 101 so he would know that war did not begin with “the first man.” Francis Moore Lappe, legendary author of Diet for [...]
Here’s a call for essays on a great topic from a GW journal, courtesy of Long Road blog:
Anthropological Quarterly is seeking submissions for a special issue exploring “piracy” defined broadly, from copying CDs to Captain Hook, from biopiracy to the coast of Somalia. Authors may consider one of the following, making sure that their work [...]
Anthropology is an essential part of everyone’s education today, according to comments in an article about “foreignness” in the special holiday double edition of the Economist.
Why is anthropology so important now? Because more people than ever are “foreigners” for one reason or another, willingly or unwillingly. Last year, nearly half of the people of [...]
According to the World Health Organization, the Asia-Pacific region is one of the highest risk areas for the emergence of new infectious diseases. Factors such as dense rural populations living in close proximity to animals and dense urban housing are found throughout the region. Existing national and regional capacity to prevent or deal with disease [...]
