• Will China’s one-child policy be history? Last year the Chinese government commissioned studies to assess possible effects of eliminating its one-child-per-couple policy. Susan Greenhalgh, professor of cultural anthropology at the University of California at Irvine, is a leading expert on the one-child policy and author of Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s [...]
The US Department of Education has repealed a 2005 Bush-era policy that made it easy for high schools and colleges to avoid compliance with a federal law mandating equal opportunities for female students in schools and colleges that receive federal aid, specifically in terms of athletics. One way to comply with Title IX was to [...]
The news from anthroland has thinned out a bit these days. Nonetheless we have some noteworthy items for you from tweets to eats. Read on! • Be careful what you tweet The US Library of Congress will permanently archive all public tweets starting with March 2006 when Twitter began. Several media have noted the vast [...]
To our Washington-area readers out there, the Culture in Global Affairs Program and the Global Women’s Forum at the Elliott School of International Affairs are hosting our final event of Spring 2010 this Thursday evening: Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call Center Industry Dr. Reena Patel Drawing from her newly released book, Working [...]
On April 15, a panel at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, focused on a newly released study, “Progress Report on Women in Peace and Security Careers: U.S. Executive Branch.” Jolynn Shoemaker, Executive Director of Women in International Security (WIIS) presented highlights from the report. Major findings include: the situation for women [...]
• Flexians make it to Huffington Post Book Club selection The HuffPost pick is cultural anthropologist Janine Wedel’s Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market: “It’s a gripping, disquieting book that exposes and explains why it’s so hard to bring about any real change in our country.” [...]
In his column “Social Media, Current Interests, and the 2010 Winter Olympics” in issue one of Popular Anthropology Magazine, Bob Muckle mentions anthropologyworks and calls it one of his favorite blogs.
Who knew that so many commuters on trains and buses in England carry fecal bacteria on their hands? Val Curtis, medical anthropologist and public health expert, teamed up with five other researchers to assess the presence or absence of fecal bacteria on the hands of over 400 people in five UK cities. Dr. Curtis is [...]
• You can get what you want Many families in the United Kingdom with sons but no daughters increasingly seek high-tech services to ensure that they have a daughter. An article in the Guardian profiles two English families with multiple sons who went abroad and paid substantial amounts of money to have a daughter. The [...]
Spring is a perilous time for sheep. Lambs are born in the spring, and often capricious weather can spell their doom. In the spring, many one year-old lambs are slaughtered to provide meat for a feast. It is the time of the sacrifice of the lambs. Sheep are one of the earliest domesticated animals, and [...]
