Spotted at Downtown Books & News, Asheville, NC – The Rejected Quarterly, fine literature rejected at least five times. Interesting idea that may or may not play out in the sciences. Still, you gotta love the moxie. I guess the proof is in the pudding: I didn’t actually buy it. Went with Creative Nonfiction, #42, [...]
: . antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 03 11 11 14:33:55, by Lorenz Categories : politics Us and Them Northern America migration Anthropologist : Stop the abuse of migrants at the U.S . Mexican boder They beat children and adults during apprehensions and in custody , they deny people with life-threatening medical conditions treatment , separate family members and confiscate their belongings . We were held with another woman who was coughing so badly that she threw up violently , over and over . The others in the cell called for help . An officer came over and said , Que se muera Let her die Two months ago anthropologists Rachel Stonecipher Sarah Willen alerted the public on the Access
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 [...]