February 2012
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anthropology and development: a feel good essay →
Given this swiftly changing context, the world of development is increasingly fertile ground for anthropologists seeking to engage with the public sphere in creative ways. Here are two ways that we think anthropology can be put to good use:
1) As new development regimes change people’s lives in unexpected directions, anthropology can help us understand how this situation creates opportunities...
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Stop Spike TV from Looting our Collective Past! →
jangojips:
This show, as advertised by Spike TV (http://aroundthenetworks.com/spike-tv-announces-unscripted-show-american-digger/), will follow a team “led by former professional wrestler-turned-modern- day relic hunter Ric Savage as they scour … battlefields and historic sites, in hopes of striking it rich by unearthing and selling rare pieces of American history.”
“American Diggers,” as...
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White House Says Child Soldiers Are Ok, if They... →
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sacred site in arizona still threatened by land... →
Yesterday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing onlegislation that would transfer 2,400+ acres of land to foreign mining companies to facilitate a huge copper mine in Arizona. If built, the mine would take a campground and sites sacred to area tribes out of public hands and turn it over foreign-owned mining companies.
for more information: Arizona Mining Reform...
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school "apologizes" to girl punished for speaking... →
After family members and tribal representatives met with Principal Dan Minter and other Sacred Heart officials Jan. 24 to complain about the punishment, Miranda’s mother, Tanaes Washinawatok, told the Leader school officials said they would apologize to Miranda, the family and the tribe.
Instead, Minter on Feb. 1 sent students home with a letter addressed to Sacred Heart’s parents...
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Seventh Grader Suspended for Saying "I Love You"... →
Miranda speaks two languages: Menominee and English. She also plays on her basketball team. However, two Thursdays ago she was suspended for one basketball game because she spoke Menominee to a fellow classmate during class.
January 2012
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WWIV the anthropologist's war. →
from the radio show, the best of our knowledge.
Academics are no longer just ivory tower analysts. The Defense Department has recently hired civilian anthropologists and social scientists as on-the-ground advisers to soldiers in something called the Human Terrain System. James Der Derian of Brown University talks to Anne Strainchamps about the controversy and his film “Human Terrain: War...
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the mammary gland and its origin during synapsid... →
Lactation appears to be an ancient reproductive trait that predates the origin of mammals. The synapsid branch of the amniote tree that separated from other taxa in the Pennsylvanian (>310 million years ago) evolved a glandular rather than scaled integument. Repeated radiations of synapsids produced a gradual accrual of mammalian features. The mammary gland apparently derives from an ancestral...
December 2011
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Anonymous asked: So....just out of curiosity (and because I'm more than a little weird and cant get over it), how come you never capitalize the first couple of sentences of any of your posts?
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An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry. →
When Arunachalam Muruganantham hit a wall in his research on creating a sanitary napkin for poor women, he decided to do what most men typically wouldn’t dream of. He wore one himself—for a whole week. Fashioning his own menstruating uterus by filling a bladder with goat’s blood, Muruganantham went about his life while wearing women’s underwear, occasionally squeezing the contraption to test...
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Fierce...Flawless...: Anthropology, Queer Theory,... →
fyeahtranssexuals:
Modern queer theory (and much of anthropology, in fact) suffers from ethnocentrism and the ideas of “whiteness” that are so deeply embedded in American culture that it inhibits credibility and the way that the medical community sees and defines sex and culture.
This…
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anarchist anthropology →
follow the link to read the complete two page article.
The anthropologist David Graeber has a strong claim to being the house theorist of Occupy Wall Street. A veteran of the antiglobalization uprisings in Seattle and Genoa, he helped orchestrate the first “General Assembly” in New York this summer, and has since become one of the movement’s most outspoken defenders. For him, the encampments in...
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american anthropological association, a stand... →
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American drug policy has direct effects on discrimination against Mexicans and Central Americans. We do not know how much Mexico’s drug war has cost. It is not a simple calculus, as many of the expenses are incurred at the state and local levels, and indirect costs are many. At the federal level, though, budgetary expenditures in security increased...
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Reblog if you like/study Anthropology
piscrewy:
I want to follow you!
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November 2011
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science divides american anthropological... →
As she opened a session here Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Virginia R. Dominguez of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and president of the group, told those gathered here that “we don’t have to agree. Sometimes consensus is oppressive.” That was one kind of oppression that no one needed to worry about in this session.
The...
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