June 20-26, 2011 The Summer Institute in Cultural Resource Management offers an excellent and unique opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students to explore a career in cultural resource management, and to obtain real-world experiences that can be applied to future jobs in CRM. The Introduction to CRM course provides a week-long intensive training in the [...]
Through “Editors’ Choice,” you can get access to dozens of recent articles in prominent journals including Visual Anthropology, Medicine and Society, Food and Foodways, Ethnos, History and Anthropology, and more.
• Anthro of international relations: U.S. and Uzbekistan In a guest column in Foreign Policy, Russell Zanca looks at U.S.-Uzbekistan relations and concludes that U.S. diplomats can do little to transform a brutal totalitarian state into a democracy. He looks to history: “Nearly two decades of diplomatic engagement have resulted in a firmly entrenched, barbaric [...]
If you still need the perfect holiday gift for someone on your A-list, go to your local bookstore and get a copy of Sebastian Junger‘s book, War. Junger has a B.A. in cultural anthropology, and just take a look at what he’s done with it. The book may not fit easily in every stocking due [...]
• Australia’s first indigenous Rhodes Scholar Adelaide University student Rebecca Richards is the first Australian indigenous Rhodes Scholar. She will study anthropology at Oxford and pursue her passion for repatriation of objects to indigenous communities in Australia as well as survival of their languages and cultures. She has custodial responsibilities for her family site and [...]
For one thing, barbecue is a noun not a verb. The special double issue of the Economist has an article on barbecue and American culture. One quote: “Barbecue in America, particularly in the American South is like red wine in Bordeaux or maize in Mexico. More than just something to consume, it is an expression [...]
An artistically engaging 10-minute video on the cultural construction of time offers much food for thought. A resounding message is about the new culture of “busyness” in the United States and its many costs to family life, health, and more. Cultural anthropologists will not appreciate the several totalizing references to whole countries having value X [...]
• How to slow cholera in Haiti Paul Farmer and co-authors published an article in the Lancet laying out five steps for slowing the death toll of cholera in Haiti. Several media including NPR, CNN, and the New York Times picked up on step 3: providing cholera vaccine. For more information on all five steps, [...]
Paul Farmer and colleagues published a plea for urgency and cooperation in Lancet. It involves five steps: identify and treat all those with symptomatic cholera make cholera vaccines available through a concerted effort address water insecurity to promote prevention strengthen Haiti’s public health system. raise the goals for health in Haiti and deliver the means [...]
Arizona State University is now accepting applications for the Summer 2011 session of its Critical Languages Institute (CLI). CLI courses are tuition free. Full and partial fellowships are available for most languages. Application deadline: March 1, 2011. For more information, see: http://cli.asu.edu or email cli@asu.edu.
