• The anthropologist behind Occupy Wall Street Several mainstream media outlets carried stories about cultural anthropologist David Graeber, said to be the anthropologist behind Occupy Wall Street. As reported in Business Weekly and other sources, David Graeber says he had three goals for the year: promote his book, learn to drive, and launch a worldwide [...]
Anthropologists in the Securityscape: A Dialogue on Implications for Practice When: Tuesday, November 1 Where: Dinner, Beacon Bar and Grill, 5:30pm Charles Sumner School, 7:00 PM Presenters: Robert Albro, American University, School of International Service David Abramson, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State For more information, visit: November 2011 Meeting
In case you were not aware of this category of human beings, please check out its usage in the following extract from a brief piece in Nature about Aboriginal rights in Australia: As research manager of the Goldfields Land and Sea Council (GLSC), I was involved in your discussion of Aboriginal genome research (Nature 477, [...]
The second issue of Anthropology of this Century – a new online journal – has just been published, with articles by Yunxiang Yan, Alfred Gell, Janet Carsten, Andrew Beatty, Stephan Feuchtwang, Dena Freeman and Charles Stafford. Visit the second issue here. Note that on the archives page you will still find issue one, with articles [...]
The CIGA Seminar Series Presents Arresting the Killer in the Kitchen: The Promises and Pitfalls of Commercializing Improved Cookstoves by Rob Bailis, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies When: Thursday, November 3, 5:30 – 6:30 pm Where: The Elliott School of International Affairs, Room 505 1957 E Street NW Professor Bailis will [...]
• On vengeance and feuding Canada’s National Post carried an article about the execution (assassination?) of Gaddafi which quoted Ronald Niezen, chair of anthropology at McGill University in Montreal. Niezen said that the killing of Col. Gaddafi “establishes the legitimacy of the old tribal allegiances that are destabilizing of state structures…The danger is the complete destabilizing [...]
When: October 28-30 Where: Washington DC Join us for Machik Weekend, an annual fall gathering in Washington DC, to explore service and educational programs in Tibet. Meet past and present Machik volunteers, team members and other dynamic organizations and individuals working in the Tibetan region. Through roundtables, speakers and informal discussions, learn about Machik service [...]
Anthropology in Action editor, Dr Christine McCourt, is seeking anthropological literature to aid research on aspects of medicalization in childbirth in Saudi Arabia and the experience of Afghan refugee women having a baby in the UK. Any knowledge, resources, or assistance would be greatly appreciated and can be passed on to anthropologyinaction@yahoogroups.com
• Anthro roots of Occupy Wall Street movement According to an article in the Chronicle for Higher Education, Occupy Wall Street’s most defining characteristics are rooted in the scholarship of anarchism and, specifically, in an ethnography of central Madagascar by cultural anthropologist David Graeber. Graeber holds the position of Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, [...]
One of a cluster of articles on the Arctic region in today’s Nature magazine is by Henry Huntington, who has a Ph.D. in polar studies from Cambridge University and is Arctic science director for the Pew Environment Group in Eagle River, Alaska. He notes that the “concept of scientists using indigenous or traditional knowledge in [...]
