Deadline: Friday, December 10th, 2010 The Royal Anthropology Institute is looking for engaging photographs that explore cross-cultural and human elements of sport. The competition is free and open to anyone interested in anthropology, photography, and sport. To learn more go to http://www.discoveranthropology.org.uk/your-space/99-photos-.html
There are people who buy and sell other people all over the world today. Among the most severe forms of human trafficking is child sex trafficking. And Washington, DC is one of the “hot spots” for this crime. The extent, causes, approaches to prevention, and recovery of victims were among the many compelling topics addressed [...]
• How often do you think about… The weather: Anthropologist of popular British culture, Kate Fox, finds that British people talk about the weather once every six hours and that 70 percent check the weather forecast at least once a day. Weather talk, she finds, is a way to facilitate conversation. She also learned that men [...]
Presentation by David Vine Tuesday, October 26th, 7:30pm Bethesda Public Library 7400 Arlington Rd, Bethesda, MD 20814
Making President Obama’s New Vision for Development Work A Presentation by Ray Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America This talk will consider President Obama’s new approach to development and explore its impact on how international agencies, governments, and NGOs seek to assist Haiti. Drawing on experience in other countries, the speaker will also present Oxfam’s view on [...]
• The call of the Yeti Reports of Yeti sightings in Russia’s rugged Kemerevo region, in Siberia, are attracting record numbers of tourists to the area. Moscow News quotes Sergei Vasiliev, anthropology department head of the Moscow Ethnology and Anthropology Institute as saying that there is no scientific evidence of the Yeti, or Bigfoot. Nonetheless, [...]
Guest post by Alex Dupuy Testifying before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 10, 2010, former US President Bill Clinton, who is now serving as Special Envoy to Haiti for the United Nations, said that the trade liberalization (aka neoliberal) policies he pushed in the 1990s and that compelled Haiti to remove [...]
IMMEDIATE POSITION OPENING: Project Coordinator/Ethnographer Institute for Community Research The Institute for Community Research (ICR) has an opening to begin in October 2010 for a full time Project Coordinator/Ethnographer to work on the 3-year federally funded Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) Translation Study. RAP is a program that trains drug users to become “Peer Health Advocates” [...]
• Hunger in a rich land According to a recent poll, Philadelphia is one of the poorest–and hungriest–10 cities in the United States. There is intergenerational hunger, hunger exacerbated by the cut-back in federal eligibility for welfare, and hunger because of the recent and continuing economic recession. Cultural anthropologist Mariana Chilton, an assistant professor at [...]
Ayahuasca, a beverage brewed from the roots of an Amazonian plant and consumed under the guidance of a shaman, reportedly provides mind-opening experiences and relief from symptoms of stress, depression and other afflictions. Ayahuasca has long been used in healing rituals in the Amazon region of Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Recently the Guardian carried [...]
