• Cultural anthropologist wins national award in Australia A book critiquing public policy toward Australia’s aborigines over several decades has won the Manning Clark House Cultural Award 2009. The awardee is Peter Sutton, a cultural anthropologist and linguist and senior research fellow at the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum. His book, The [...]
Farming women hold up more than half the sky in rural Senegal. Olga Linares, a researcher with the Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Institute in Panama, has been doing fieldwork in three regions of Senegal for 40 years. She has witnessed many changes over this period including a doubling of the number of poor people, declining rainfall [...]
From the Somatosphere blog: Each year for the past ten years or so McGill’s Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry has hosted an Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry. The Institute includes a series of month-long courses on cultural psychiatry, methods in health research, culture in clinical contexts, global mental health research and other topics, [...]
In the past few years, epidemic events, both actual and virtual, have made a spectacular comeback. Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases such as avian and swine flu have generated great anxiety the world over, resulting in a pervasive sense of vulnerability, insecurity, and uncertainty. A powerful spirit of urgency, based on a genuine concern for [...]
by Barbara Miller A category of local conflict in Peru is called conflictos mineros, mining conflicts. The existence of this specific term reflects the frequency of such conflicts in Peru following neoliberal economic reforms in the early 1990s. Fabiana Li, now a Newton International Fellow based at the University of Manchester, conducted research for her [...]
• Anthropologists to help the US military in war? Two cultural anthropologists who have been critics of the Human Terrain System since its beginning hold firm to their conviction that anthropologists should not participate in war efforts. Furthermore, Hugh Gusterson, professor of anthropology at George Mason University, and David Price, professor of anthropology at St. [...]
The Practicing Anthropologist Student Association at the University of Maryland, College Park is excited to present an upcoming conference! “Anthroplus: Collaborative Endeavors and Emerging Trends” will be held Saturday, March 06, 2010 at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union at the University of Maryland-College Park. Anthroplus is a conference by graduate students for students in [...]
by Barbara Miller Rumors about end-of-life policies in the US health care reform debate of 2009 loomed large, enflaming talk about “death panels” that would “pull the plug on grandma.”Anyone who seeks to be informed about alternatives to the current US system (or non-system) for end-of-life care should read Frances Norwood’s book, The Maintenance of [...]
Come join members of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists Steering Committee as they discuss their new book The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society next Sunday at the Shirlington Library, with a signing to follow at Busboys and Poets Cafe down the street. Please help spread the word. The event is free and [...]
• Bolivian anthropologist quoted on indigenous politics In an article about the popularity of Evo Morales in Bolivia, the New York Times points to evidence of growing rivalries and dissatisfaction with him from other indigenous political leaders. Riccardo Calla, an anthropologist and the minister of indigenous affairs in a previous administration, comments that indigenous politicians [...]
