Anthroworks presents its favorite 2011 North American dissertations in cultural anthropology. In compiling this list, I searched the “Dissertations International” electronic database that is available through my university library. The database includes mainly U.S. dissertations with a light sprinkling from Canada. I used the same search terms as I did in previous years. True confession: [...]
2012 UBC Anthropology Graduate Conference: Culture and Change: Towards a Dynamic Anthropology When: March 2-3 Deadline for submission: Jan 31 The Anthropology Department at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, is pleased to announce the 2012 graduate student conference. Anthropologists recognize that cultures are dynamic and changing. Recent global events, such as the uprising in [...]
The 2012 Anthropology Methods Mall is online. This site has info about five, NSF-supported opportunities for methods training in cultural anthropology: 1. SCRM (Short Courses on Research Methods. For those with the Ph.D.) 2. SIRD (Summer Institute on Research Design. For graduate students) 3. SFTM (Summer Field Training in Methods program in Bolivia. For graduate [...]
Transgressive Culture – ‘Madness’ and Culture Deadline for submission: Feb 19 Transgressive Culture is a new electronic and print peer-reviewed journal and book series published with Gylphi, with an international editorial board that includes Ken Gelder (University of Melbourne) and James Kincaid (University of Southern California). Details of the ‘addiction edition’ can be found here: [...]
There is no Nobel prize in anthropology and certainly not in the field of cultural/social anthropology which is not known for exciting “discoveries.” Cultural anthropologists cannot match findings such as: Neanderthals are smarter than we thought, chimpanzees are smarter than we thought, construction of temples is older than we thought, when did people first make [...]
By contributor Sean Carey I am driving along Mile End Road in east London around midnight with a Bangladeshi friend. I am giving him a lift home, after we had paid a brief visit to a “gentlemen’s club” located on the border between Tower Hamlets and the City, the so-called Square Mile, London’s preeminent financial [...]
Read the first issue Ethnographica Journal on Culture and Disability (EJCD) is a new peer-reviewed journal that is grounded in ethnographic research and writing as the principal means of understanding the significations of Dis/Ability. The journal invites scholarly contributions that engage in conceptual dialogues across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities in general, but [...]
By contributor Sean Carey The slim, elegantly dressed blonde-haired woman in her early forties emerges from the side entrance of the House of Fraser into the pedestrianized part of Old Cavendish Street at the junction with Oxford Street, purposefully heading to her next destination. A smile slowly appears on her face as she hears the [...]
By contributor Sean Carey The big romance is over and the mass media thinks it knows why. Pippa Middleton rose to national and international fame when she was maid of honor earlier this year as her older sister married Prince William, second in line to the British throne. She is reported to have been “dumped” [...]
An article in Nature reports that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation realizes the importance of social science insights and indigenous/local knowledge in generating innovative approaches to improving human welfare in developing countries and promoting the adoption of such approaches. This is not news to cultural anthropologists. What is news is that the Bill and [...]
