Tunisia burst onto the news scene with its recent political upheaval and ousting of the president (pictured). What do cultural anthropologists know and write about Tunisian society? I do not include a bibliography with this post, but will try to do so later. Instead, I simply point you to a fascinating dissertation by Rodney Collins, [...]
Erica James, associate professor of anthropology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who spoke on a panel I moderated last January, has generously allowed AnthropologyWorks to post the preface to her important, new book, Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti (University of California Press). Preface to “Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti” by [...]
Tourism, Heritage, and Sacred Space in China Robert J. Shepherd, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Honors and International Affairs When: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 from 12:30 – 1:45 PM Where: Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 1957 E Street, NW The Elliott School of International Affairs George Washington University Please RSVP here Although the Chinese government has [...]
The Case of Organ Transplantation in Egypt: Reassessing Bioethics and Contemporary Islamic Thought Sherine Hamdy, Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University; author, Our Bodies Belong to God: Bioethics, Islam, and Organ Transplantation When: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM Where: Lindner Family Commons, Room [...]
• This mine is my mine China is pushing to establish its first wholly owned substantial mining project in Australia, in the Weld Range in the western part of the country. The Weld Range is rich in iron ore. It is also the home of Wilge Mia, the world’s oldest known continuing mining operation. For [...]
Guest post by Charles Fruehling Springwood Worldwide, perhaps a billion guns? Where do guns come from? Who makes them? Who sells them? What kinds of guns do Colombian drug lords buy? Marxist guerillas in the Philippines? A middle-class doctor in Finland, where some 15 million Fins own guns? A poor farmer in southern Mexico? An [...]
Archaeologists spend a lot of time analyzing weapons of our prehistoric past. Cultural anthropologists are more likely to study bananas, cars and wedding dress style. Commodity studies in cultural anthropology rarely address weapons. No doubt one reason is that they are hard to study — people are less likely to want to share stories about [...]
This event next week might be of interest to readers in DC: Haiti, One Year On: Realizing Country Ownership in a Fragile State Tuesday, January 11, 2011 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. B-340 Rayburn House Office Building, 45 Independence Ave SW Washington, DC Speakers will include: Angela Bruce Raeburn, Senior Policy Advisor for Humanitarian Response, [...]
Deborah Eade, provides an overview of this special issue in her editorial: It is particularly pleasing to end our twentieth-anniversary volume with an issue devoted to the theme ‘Rethinking Impact: Understanding the Complexity of Poverty and Change’, compiled by guest editors Nina Lilja, Patti Kristjanson, and Jamie Watts. Their call to legitimize what they describe [...]
The WASH Advocacy Initiative is looking to fill two positions: communications director and sustainability director. Click on the link for the former post to read the description. The description for the second job is pasted after the jump. Here’s some information about the WASH Advocacy Initiative: The voluntary, sector-wide initiative, will support the U.S. WASH [...]
