By contributor Sean Carey One of the great success stories of the travel sector in recent decades has been the development and growth in ecotourism, which is currently estimated to be worth around $60 billion annually. Companies, which operate in diverse environments, including cities, villages, religious sites and wildlife sanctuaries, have realized that to be [...]
• The invisible anthropologist speaks about Haiti Paul Farmer, rarely identified in the media as a cultural anthropologists as well as a doctor and humanitarian health advocate, was quoted on the front page of the Washington Post, above the crease, in an article about Haiti two years after the disastrous earthquake: “‘Recovery is here. It [...]
An article in Nature discusses the findings of economists that the monetary costs of disasters are rising mainly because more investments are being made in disaster-prone areas: “Almost two-thirds of 2011’s exceptionally high costs are attributable to two disasters unrelated to climate and weather: the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March, and [...]
The 2012 Anthropology Methods Mall is online. This site has info about five, NSF-supported opportunities for methods training in cultural anthropology: 1. SCRM (Short Courses on Research Methods. For those with the Ph.D.) 2. SIRD (Summer Institute on Research Design. For graduate students) 3. SFTM (Summer Field Training in Methods program in Bolivia. For graduate [...]
Shima is a peer-refereed journal that is published twice a year in open access online form and as an annual print compendium. The cultures referred to in the journal’s subtitle refer not only to arts, crafts, language, folklore, media etc. but also aspects of local or inter-local tourism, development, politics and/or religion and how these [...]
The fall issue of AnthroNotes, with its general theme on communication, contains the following articles: –Unpacking Cars: Doing Anthropology at Intel by Genevieve Bell (Intel) –Recovering Voices: Documenting and Sustaining Endangered Languages and Knowledge by Joshua Bell (NMNH) –The Impact of Written Telecommunications Technology on the World’s Linguistic Diversity by Gabriela Pérez Báez (NMNH) –Early [...]
Displaced childhoods: Oral history and traumatic experiences Annual Conference of the Oral History Society at the University of Reading, United Kingdom When: July 13-14 Deadline: Jan 21 Papers are invited that draw on current projects or recently completed work using oral history and related methods, which address the themes of disrupted and traumatic childhoods. This [...]
Anthropology in the World Conference When: June 8-10 Deadline: January 16 The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that a conference ‘Anthropology in the World’ will take place at the British Museum, Clore Centre, in conjunction with the BM Centre for Anthropology. The aim of this conference is to explore the manifold ways in [...]
Blacksmith Institute Journal of Health and Pollution Deadline: February 29 Publication: June 2012 The Blacksmith Institute Journal of Health and Pollution (JH&P) is a semi-annual on-line journal of peer-reviewed research and news published by the Blacksmith Institute. The mission of JH&P is to facilitate a discussion of toxic pollution and impacts to human health, particularly [...]
Transgressive Culture – ‘Madness’ and Culture Deadline for submission: Feb 19 Transgressive Culture is a new electronic and print peer-reviewed journal and book series published with Gylphi, with an international editorial board that includes Ken Gelder (University of Melbourne) and James Kincaid (University of Southern California). Details of the ‘addiction edition’ can be found here: [...]
