• What a turn off In an article about Egypt’s unprecedented shut-down of the Internet this past week, the LA Times quotes Charles Hirschkind, associate professor of cultural anthropology at UC Berkeley: “The Web, and in particular social media sites, have been an invaluable tool for activists seeking political and social reforms in Egypt…The Egyptian [...]
Political protests in Egypt are ongoing at the time of this writing, mainly in Cairo, Alexandria and some other cities. Who knows what will unfold in the near future? What do cultural anthropologists offer to inform our understanding of this new social movement? In order to address these issues, I turned first to my favorite [...]
Among the many 2010 AAAS Fellows chosen for their contributions to science and technology are eight anthropologists. Six of the eight are biological anthropologists. Two are archaeologists. They will be recognized at the Fellows Forum to be held February 19, 2011, during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The new Fellows will receive a [...]
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• Oprah supports Aboriginal women’s heritage A documentary about how an Australian Aboriginal elder balanced preserving her ancestors’ heritage and revealing their sacred history is showcased on Oprah Winfrey’s website. The film is called Sprits in the Stone. Several archaeologists worked on the project which involves a 45,000 year old rock art site belonging to [...]
It’s great to see an update on blogs about anthropology. Anthroworks is pleased to be listed. More importantly, it’s great to see that anthropology has such a strong and growing presence in the blogosphere.
The lecture series Museums and Antiquities – A New World presents: “Taking the Long View: Twenty Years of Repatriation at the National Museum of Natural History” by William Billeck, Repatriation Office Manager, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution When: Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 6pm Where: Funger Hall, Room 103 2201 G St. NW [...]
Gender Across Borders Women & Peacebuilding in the Middle East Series is looking for articles that explore the roles women should play in bringing peace to the Middle East. Deadline to submit articles is Tuesday, Jan 25
NOTE: These two events have been rescheduled for Friday, March 4. The workshop will be at 3pm and the performance will be at 6:30pm in the same location. Gina Athena Ulysse, Wesleyan University Associate Professor of Anthropology, African Studies, Environmental Studies, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Inaugural Fellow in the College of the [...]
• In Sudan: the Crusades still? Cultural anthropologist and Africa scholar Mahmood Mamdani says that the creation of a new Western sanctioned nation-state in southern Sudan — a religiously and politically contested area at the edge of the Arab-Muslim world — is proof that the jihadis are fighting an international system bent on stemming the [...]
