By contributor Sean Carey Around 2 million people in the U.K. — roughly 3 percent of the total population — come from “mixed race” backgrounds. The big surprise is that the estimate is twice the number recorded in official statistics. This finding comes from a study by Dr. Alita Nandi at the University of Essex’s [...]
• Myths about Afghanistan live on “Ten Years In, Afghan Myths Live On” is an op-ed that appeared in the New York Times on October 8. It is co-authored by my colleague, Ben Hopkins, a historian at George Washington University, and Magnus Marsden, an anthropologist at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the [...]
When: Tuesday, 11 October 2011 Where: Sumner School, 7:00 pm Dinner, Beacon Bar and Grill, 5:30 pm Dr. Frances Norwood will talk about her book, The Maintenance of Life: Preventing Social Death through Euthanasia Talk and End-of-Life Care–Lessons from the Netherlands. . The book is based on a 15-month ethnography of home death in The [...]
The New Jersey State Museum seeks a Curator of Archaeology/Ethnology. The Curator is responsible for the Archaeology/Ethnology bureau and its collections; initiates, conducts and supervises prehistoric archaeological research in the State of New Jersey; locates and evaluates archaeological sites for study and preservation; initiates, prepares and supervises interpretive, exhibits, programs and publications in Archaeology/Ethnology for other [...]
• Culture and chronic pain Scientific American includes a comment about chronic pain from medical anthropologist/psychiatrist Arthur Kleinman in an article on experiencing pain: “However complicated to articulate and difficult to interpret, the patient’s experience of pain is lived as a whole. Perception, experience, and coping run into each other and are lived as a unified [...]
A Living Ritual: An Ethnography of Islamic Prayers in Iran When: Friday October 28, 12-2 pm Where: Funger 220 2201 G Street [near the Foggy Bottom metro] Washington DC 20052 A talk by Professor Niloofar Haeri, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University For more information call 202-994-6075 or email anth@gwu.edu
