Over at the “Democracy in America” blog at The Economist, M.S. has a new post that replies to Florida Governor Rick Scott’s recent “we don’t need no anthropologists” statement. The author provides a rehash of the whole debacle, and then quotes Arizona State University president Michael Crow’s response to the situation: [R]esolving the complex challenges [...]There have been a couple of good posts online about the links between anthropology and the Occupy Wall Street protests. See, in particular, these links: Why We Protest David Graeber: anthropologist, anarchist, financial analyst* Anthropology and Occupy Wall Street “Similar to the Third World debt crisis” – David Graeber on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ As many [...]I recently had an opportunity to watch José Padilha’s “Secrets of the Tribe” which purports to put “the field of anthropology… under the magnifying glass in [a] fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomamö Indians.” This film has been a big success at festivals, screening at Sundance, Hotdocs, etc. and has also been shown [...]Duke’s conference to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Writing Culture began a day before I could make time to arrive. This was a great disappointment to me because the first panel of the program (and the only one scheduled for that day) was reserved for the volume’s editors, George Marcus and James Clifford, so that [...]
antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 13 10 11 15:58:00, by Lorenz Categories : applied anthropology anthropology general This is anthropology Students enlighten We don't need anthropology Govenor Anthropologists should send a thank you to the Govenor of Florida , Rick Scott , who a few days ago in a radio show said We don’t need anthropologists in the state” . We don’t need a lot more anthropologists in the state . It’s a great degree if people want to get it , but we don’t need them here . I want to spend our dollars giving people science , technology , engineering , and math degrees . That’s what our kids need to focus all their time and attention on , those types of degrees , so whenNews from the “why don’t you all just get a real job” front. Who cares about anthropology? Who thinks that anthropology matters in the 21st century? Well, it’s definitely NOT Florida Governor Rick Scott. Yesterday, Governor Scott made his opinions about anthropology loud and clear during a radio interview: We don’t need a lot more [...]I’ll be honest: reading Ken Wissoker’s liveblogging of the Writing Culture conference was the first time I’ve ever understood why anyone bothers to live blog, and I’m looking forwarding to reading more of Matt’s coverage of the conference. It’s exactly the sort of ‘high table’ event that a small amount of anthropologists use to reproduce [...]I just read Kate Clancy’s post “The three things I learned at the Purdue Conference for Pre-Tenure Women: on being a radical scholar” over at her blog at Scientific American. This is definitely well worth a read. She writes about life, academia, tenure–and the need to be radicals. What does she mean by that? Well, [...]Here at the master control center for the Savage Minds Twitter feed, @savageminds, when we’re not out scouring the web for the finest in links we’re cutting and pasting them into a text editor at the end of the month. So here is your Around the Web Digest for the month of September dear reader. [...]