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		<title>Anthro in the news 2/20/12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[• Two-part interview with David Graeber The Boston review carried an extensive interview with cultural anthropologist David Graeber, author of the recent book entitled Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Among other topics, Graeber discusses student debt. • Aboriginal treasures found in a basement ABC news Australia reports that anthropologists at Perth&#8217;s Berndt Museum have discovered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthro in the news 2/13/12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[• A kiss is just a kiss? It&#8217;s that time of the year again with articles and blog posts popping up all over, addressing various romantic topics as we approach Valentine&#8217;s Day. For starts, an article in the U.K.&#8217;s Independent is titled &#8220;Pucker Up&#8221; (it goes on from there). No surprise: the subject is kissing. Among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Football drives health education among schoolchildren in Mauritius and other African nations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By contributor Sean Carey Like the populations of many African countries, Mauritians are football mad. The game played in stadiums and streets all over the palm-fringed Indian Ocean island is a legacy of 19th century British colonialism &#8212; administrators, missionaries, soldiers and sailors introduced the game to locals &#8212; whereas in other African nations it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthro in the news 2/6/12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[• Honor killing or femicide: the label is important The term &#8220;honor killing&#8221; creates false distancing of a crime that is in fact murder of females according to Homa Hoodfar, professor of anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal. She co-authored an article in the Montreal Gazette examining the media coverage of the Shafia trial in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming WAPA event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anthropological Contributions to Designing a Conflict Zone Livelihood Recovery Project in Afghanistan When: Feb 7 Where: Dinner: 5:30pm &#124; Beacon Bar and Grill Meeting: 7:00pm &#124; Charles Sumner School, Rotating Gallery G-4 (ground floor) In 2008 an anthropologist working for an international NGO co-designed a $60 million one year emergency agricultural recovery program for northern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maldives and open society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By contributor Sean Carey Mention the Maldives to many Europeans and most of them will think of a string of paradise islands. Along with other countries in the Indian Ocean like Mauritius and the Seychelles, the Maldives is renowned as a honeymoon destination replete with 5-star hotels and luxury spas. In fact, like Mauritius and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anthropologyworks.com/index.php/2012/01/31/maldives-and-open-society/</link>
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		<title>Anthro in the news 1/30/12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[• Big male sports in U.S. universities Orin Starn, a Duke University professor of cultural anthropology is a longtime critic of Duke&#8217;s participation in Division I athletics. As quoted in the New York Times, he objects to sports occupying “this gigantic place in the university landscape.” He calls basketball “a strain of anti-intellectualism” that claims [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anthropologyworks.com/index.php/2012/01/30/anthro-in-the-news-13012/</link>
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		<title>Feminist anthropology sessions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Borders When: Nov 14-18 Where: San Francisco The Association for Feminist Anthropology welcomes sessions to be considered for inclusion in AFA’s programming for the 111th AAA Annual Meeting. The AAA meeting theme this year is “Borders,” so AFA particularly welcomes panels that take up “borders” from a feminist anthropological perspective. For more information, visit the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anthropologyworks.com/index.php/2012/01/28/feminist-anthropology-sessions/</link>
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		<title>Will the real China please stand up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two articles in the latest issue of Nature prompted this note. The first claims that China&#8217;s historical culture inhibits science: &#8220;Two cultural genes have passed through generations of Chinese intellectuals for more than 2,000 years. The first is the thoughts of Confucius, who proposed that intellectuals should become loyal administrators. The second is the writings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://anthropologyworks.com/index.php/2012/01/27/will-the-real-china-please-stand-up/</link>
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		<title>Mauritius joins the premier league of global democracies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By contributor Sean Carey Mauritius is in the premier league of the world’s democracies, according to the newly released London-based Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index. The Index, which monitors 167 nations ranks the small Indian Ocean island, with a population of 1.3 million, 24th out of 25 “full democracies,” just ahead of Spain. Norway is [...]]]></description>
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