The University of California Press in association with the Center for a Public Anthropology is sponsoring an international competition that awards a formal, publishing contract for the best book proposal submitted — independent of whether the author has completed (or even started) the proposed manuscript. If you are interested in learning more about the University [...]
• On the Foreign Policy list In its December issue, Foreign Policy magazine named Paul Farmer, medical anthropology professor at Harvard and co-founder of Partners in Health, as number 35 in the list of top 100 innovative thinkers of 2010 “for showing the world what to do and what not to do in Haiti.” The [...]
The 2011 Anthropology Methods Mall is online. This site has info about five, NSF-supported opportunities for methods training in cultural anthropology. 1. Now in its seventh year, the SCRM (Short Courses on Research Methods) program is for cultural anthropologists who already have the Ph.D. Three five-day courses are offered during summer 2011 at the Duke [...]
Grey Journeys 8th travelwriting colloquium April 20-21, 2011 School of History and Anthropology Queen’s University Belfast This Travelwriting colloquium is the 8th annual event in the annual Writing Journeys and Places seminar series. It is an informal and interdisciplinary meeting. The colloquium will be launched by dance and music displays by senior citizens and a [...]
Medical Anthropology, a journal dedicated to publishing papers that examine human behavior, social life and health in an anthropological context, has recently made available a number of articles published since the inception of the journal in 1977. The journal provides a global forum for inquiring into and elucidating the social and cultural, ideational, contextual, structural [...]
