• Peanuts for poverty and to heck with patents
The New York Times magazine featured an article on the rise of Plumpy’nut, a foil-wrapped peanut paste produced as a nutrition booster for starving people. A French company first started manufacturing and selling it. Now other manufacturers are making a similar product including Partners in Health in [...]
This week’s anthropology in the news is the final posting made with the assistance of Graham Hough-Cornwell. For the past year, Graham has been a vital force behind the blog from inspiration, contributing his own posts, editing, photo-research, publishing posts, checking analytics, and more. He is now moving on to intensive study of Arabic this [...]
This event is hosted by the Departments of Botany and Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History in collaboration with the United States Botanic Garden and supported by the Cuatrecasas Family Foundation.
The Ninth Annual Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
September 24-25, 2010, Washington, DC
People are dependent upon plants for food, clothing, medicine, fuel and [...]
Guest post by Sean Carey
Mark Twain famously quoted a local person in his 1897 travelogue, Following the Equator: “You gather the idea that Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.”
Anyone lucky enough to fly to the Indian Ocean island will understand something of why this sentiment was recorded. [...]
• If Clef were president
Louis Herns Marcelin, a Haitian-born cultural anthropology professor at the University of Miami is paraphrased in the Seattle Times as saying that people with money and influence in Haiti are more likely to fear outsiders.
• About the mosque (you know which one)
An article in the Huffington Post discussed how Muslims around [...]
An interview by Maggie Ronkin with Fayyaz Baqir, Director of the Akhter Hameed Khan Resource Center, Islamabad, Pakistan
MR: What regions of Pakistan and sectors of the population are affected most by the tragic flooding?
FB: Vast swathes of land in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (previously the Northwest Frontier Province), Southern Punjab (the Siraiki region of [...]
Via WAPA we recently received this request for contributions from Carol J. Ellick and Joe Watkins:
Joe Watkins and I are in the process of revising a manuscript for Left Coast Press and we need your help to broaden the perspective. “The AnthropologyGraduate’s Guide: From Student to Career” is intended to provide practical steps that will [...]
Blogger’s note: I depend largely on my Google reader system to feed me the anthropology news every week for my weekly round-up of “Anthro in the news.” But a lot that is anthropological goes on under the covers, so to speak: it is just not named “anthropology.”
Out of curiosity, I went to Google news yesterday [...]
Guest post by Morgan Keay
This post is an analytical literature review, with bibliography, of recent sources that use anthropological methods to explore threats to indigenous peoples, the implications of the threats/factors, and the responses of indigenous groups. It was originally prepared for a graduate seminar at George Washington University on “Culture, Risk and Security” [...]
• Put out the fire
Experts are debating how to stop the fires in Russia which are now spreading under the surface and how to deal with the smoke and fumes. Lisa Curran, professor of environment and anthropology at Stanford University, studies peat fires. The Wall Street Journal quotes her on their health effects: “There are [...]
