Title: August 2011 Networking / Happy Hour Location: Beacon Bar & Grill Date: 16 Aug 2011, 6:30 PM WAPA’s next networking and happy hour is Tuesday, 16 August 2011, at 6:30 at the Beacon Bar & Grill. The group can usually be found at the tables next to the large windows, near the servers’ station. [...]
A note from Cultural Survival: August 9 is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, and Cultural Survival joins the world in recognizing and honoring of the strength, resilience, dignity, and pride of Indigenous Peoples around the world. Despite our long histories of struggle, we continue to weave our stories, our songs, our rituals [...]
• Angles of review Paul Farmer‘s new book, Haiti: After the Earthquake, was reviewed in the Economist and the Washington Post. The first reviewer sniped at Farmer, who is a professor of anthropology and public health at Harvard University, for being thin on history and having no basis to talk policy. The second reviewer chides [...]
By Sean Carey The explanation of the riot that happened on Tottenham High Road in north London last night after a march to protest the killing of a local 29-year-old black man, Mark Duggan, who was shot by police marksmen on Thursday evening, has followed a predictable pattern. The local MP, David Lammy, was quick [...]
A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme reveals the extent of environmental devastation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta due to extractive oil and petroleum industries. Although the study was partially funded by Shell, it appears that it has some bite. Perhaps a sign of hope. Meanwhile, an African king is suing Shell, and Niger [...]
National Geographic Channel is in search of a Scientist / Explorer to host a new 30 minute weekly TV show that highlights everything that is current and happening RIGHT NOW in the world of National Geographic, science, and exploration. We are in search of females and males between the ages of 28 and 45 years [...]
It’s August and a time when professors try to clear out accumulated reprints, notes and other collected items. Tonight, I spent a while attacking some stacks in my home office. In a cluster of materials relating to social conflict and violence, I found a clipping that I had saved from the Washington Post, dated March [...]
• On the Norway massacre Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, commented on the terrorist attacks in Oslo in several media sources. Please read his essay describing a week of media involvement. Cultural anthropologist Marcel M. Suarez-Orozco of New York University co-authored an article in the Huffington Post about [...]
By Sean Carey One day last January, around 7:00 in the evening, I was coming out of Sainsbury’s in St. Albans (near a car wash described in a previous post), laden with bags of shopping. I saw a white woman in her mid-30s, getting out of her smart sports car at the supermarket’s filling station. [...]
