In anticipation of the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics, the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Education Outreach Programme has launched an Anthropology of Sport Photo Contest. The photo contest is open to anyone interested in anthropology, photography and sport. Deadline for submissions is December 10, 2010. For further information and submission guidelines please click here.
• Investment banking works for her Insider Higher Ed carried an article about Gillian Tett’s presentation at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in which she described her use of anthropological training when she entered the world of investment banking (she has a doctorate in social anthropology from Cambridge University). Tett is the [...]
A new short video is now online featuring UMBC anthropologist Bambi Chapin tackling the question of what makes a good mother. Chapin is co-editor of the December issue of Ethos on “Mothering as Everyday Practice,” which explores not just what mothers say about parenting, but what they actually do and why. Chapin undertook this research [...]
Proposed Panel: Designing for Diagnosis and Affect: Modernity and the Future of Feeling This panel will theorize the unique interplays of affect and temporality within the expert and knowledge epicenters of late modern life. The organizers, Noelle Molé, Phd (Princeton) and Mark Robinson (Princeton) invite papers that explore these and related themes for a panel [...]
The 5th Annual UBC ethnographic film festival is calling for films. The 2011 UBC festival will honor innovation in enthnographic film. Submissions are being accepted from now until December 15th. Visit http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca/events.html for more information. Thanks to Photoethnography blog for sharing this information.
Cultural anthropologist Magnus Fiskesjö of Cornell University recently published an update in Anthropology Today to his masterful essay about the political symbolism of the Thanksgiving turkey pardon. As in his pamphlet (available for free on the Internet), he masterfully carves up savory morsels of insight. In President Obama’s first turkey pardon in 2009, he narrated [...]
Guest post by Julia Friederich, Jessica Grebeldinger, Stephanie Harris, Jacqueline Hazen, and Casey McHugh The following is an edited transcript of an interview with Philippe Bourgois, the Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Barbara Miller conducted the interview on October 26, 2010, as part of [...]
• Haiti in the time of cholera Foreign Policy magazine quoted medical anthropologist Paul Farmer as saying that it is important to seek the source of cholera in Haiti and that the reluctance of international organization to investigate further is politically motivated. Farmer, a co-founder of Partners in Health, is a public health advocate and [...]
An essay in Nature raises the heretical question of why economic growth should be every “developed” country’s goal. Such heresy is of course welcome to cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, and others who have ground-level data and experience on why “growth” is a dangerous and destructive idea. And it will prompt Bhutanese readers to smile knowingly as [...]
From Sherlock Jones to the Mysteries of the Cracked Bell: Anthropological Reflections in and on America by Tristram Riley-Smith Head of the Centre for Science, Knowledge, & Innovation in the British Government’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure When: Tuesday, November 30, 6 – 7 pm Where: 1957 E Street NW, 6th floor, Lindner [...]
