• On time (or not) The BBC carried an article about the findings of a multidisciplinary research team from Portsmouth University that the Amondawa people of the Brazilian Amazon have no abstract concept of time. Blogger’s note: see next item. • Just try it: be bored At a recent TEDx conference in Sydney, corporate anthropologist [...]
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Japanese, University of Canterbury, NZ School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Applications are invited for the above position in the Japanese Programme, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, to commence January 2012. The appointees’ principal duties will be the coordination and delivery of Japanese courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, the [...]
Lecturer in Anthropology (Fixed term, Part time) School of Global Studies Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Sussex. Regional and thematic specialism is open, although priority may be given to candidates with interests in the anthropology of development and/or visual and material culture. Application Due [...]
2011 NAPA Student Achievement Award NAPA is now accepting submissions for the Eighth Annual Student Achievement Award, to recognize student contributions in the area of practicing and applied anthropology. The award honors students who have excelled in these fields and provides opportunities, particularly for students who have worked on team projects and in applied contexts, [...]
• Who’s stressed and why? USA Today quoted Elinor Ochs, professor of cultural and linguistic anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles, in response to a new U.S. study reporting on the relationship between husbands and wives doing household chores and stress levels: “This is the first time biological stress levels have been [...]
Guest post by Sean Carey The Chagos Regagne conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London on May 19 focused on the possibility of establishing an eco-village and research station on one of the outer islands of the Chagos Archipelago, part of the disputed British Indian Ocean Territory. It turned out to be extremely interesting. [...]
Dynamic Anthropology: Tensions between Theory and Practice Where: University of Helsinki When: October 5-7, 2011 One of the many legacies of the intellectual revolution of the 60s and 70s was the acknowledgment that anthropological theorization up until that time had principally addressed the concerns of people in Western societies: industrialized, capitalist, bureaucratic. For theory to [...]
Guest post by Tristram Riley-Smith Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America by Erika Doss, University of Chicago Press (2010) At the end of William Faulkner’s masterpiece, The Sound and the Fury, the castrated idiot, Benjy Compson, weeps when his black carer walks him the wrong way past the memorial to the Confederate soldier in Oxford, [...]
• Get a life, birthers Alan Boraas, professor of anthropology at Kenai Peninsula College, offers on the ground evidence that the President of the United States is “American”: If Trump and other birthers hung out in the same Soldotna coffee shop that I do they could have asked fellow Americano-sipper Mary Toutonghi about Barack Obama’s [...]
On May 19, a conference on Chagos will be held at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington, England. It is organized by best-selling novelist, Philippa Gregory, and conservationist and adventurer, Ben Fogle. Cultural anthropology participants include David Vine of American University, who will present in the morning, and Sean Carey of Roehampton University, and Laura [...]
