Mark Weisbrot has been arguing, for some time now, that Greece must try to emulate Argentina; that is, to default on its debts not as a bargaining strategy that yields a New Deal within the Eurozone but, rather, in the context of exiting the Eurozone altogether and going it alone. Recently, Paul Krugman has endorsed [...]

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Mark Tran: Activists say global trade rules increase corporate power at the expense of developing countries, a claim highlighted by TCI's plan to sue the Indian government

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A personalized newspaper built from articles, blog posts, videos and photos selected by rieki crins.

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The obesity epidemic is still going strong. Obesity-related health problems may cost us an extra $550 billion over the next 20 years.

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An ode to the father of the electric age. View

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Have you read From Labrador to Samoa: the Theory and Practice of Eleanor Burke Leacock? Edited by Constance R. Sutton, this book is published by the Association for Feminist Anthropology/American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the International Women’s Anthropology Conference, ©1993. Order your print copy today from the AAA online store at a special member price of $7.50. Filed under: Publications

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Small Grants For Developing Ethics Curricular Materials Goals of the Program The AAA Small Grants Program seeks to foster the development and use of curricular materials for the teaching and communication of ethics and ethical practice across the discipline of anthropology. Administered by the AAA Committee on Ethics, this small grant program encourages the awareness of and innovation in ethics curricular materials used in introductory, undergraduate, and graduate classes. Proposals for the dev...  show all text

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There’s a lively #anthropology debate on over at the collective blog Savage Minds. Do check it out! Here’s my tuppence worth (as posted in the comments section): I’d like to accept Kerim’s invitation to go with the quasi-orality of blogging and think aloud for a moment, not as hastily as in a real-time interaction, but certainly not as sluggishly as in a peer-reviewed publication. I agree with the need to draw more theoretical inspiration from our ethnographic encounters, and would add to this ...  show all text

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The May issue of American Ethnologist includes essays that the journal’s editor says are among the first detailed ethnographic analyses to be published on the Occupy movements. And in the spirit of the 99%, AE  has made its two Occupy articles and a related commentary piece free to non-subscribers for the duration of 2012. “The politically emergent—how to interpret and write about it—is an explicit theme of the Occupy articles,” writes editor Angelique Haugerud. “A participant-observer who writ...  show all text

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Read the latest issue of American Ethnologist available now! Volume 39, Issue 2 (May 2012) Angelique Haugerud, Editor’s Foreword Free Access Occupy Movements: AE Forum  Free Access Maple Razsa and Andrej Kurnik, The Occupy Movement in Žižek’s hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming Jeffrey S. Juris, Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation David Nugent, Commentary: Democracy, temporalities of capitalism, and dilemmas of inc...  show all text

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In honor of Mother’s Day this year I’m sharing notes from a lecture I give in my Introduction to Anthropology course. Kinship, I tell them, is the kernel of the discipline. Families are at the center of our lives, they make us who we are. So its interesting to note that in different cultures people have different ideas about who counts as family, what their roles ought to be within the collective, and what sorts of rights and obligations they ought to have over one another. We spend some time d...  show all text

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Icelanders who pelted parliament with rocks in 2009 demanding their leaders and bankers answer for the country’s economic and financial collapse are reaping the benefits of their anger.

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'Capturing the person' at funerals is a distinctly modern concern – traditionally the ritual has focused on the bigger picture Today marks the start of "Dying Matters Awareness Week", an annual campaign supported by the National Council for Palliative Care. The hope is to get people talking and thinking more about death – about how they, and their loved ones, might have a "good death". The idea of a good death is not new. Anthropologists, historians, and other social scientists have long docume...  show all text

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I was watching Star Trek the other day (Enterprise season 4) when the crew of the Enterprise met yet another highly advanced alien species. Not just ‘faster warp drives’ or ‘bigger weapons’ but a really, truly, highly advanced alien species. So advanced that, like others that have appeared on the show, they didn’t have bodies. Take a second to think about it: why do we assume that the more advanced you get, the less body you will have? Star Trek is a product of its time featuring all the teleol...  show all text

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The following guest post is from Nathaniel Beck, a political scientist at New York University. We are obviously in the midst of the most serious recession since the Great Depression, one marked by the persistence of high unemployment. Young college graduates are particularly scared about the job situation they will face, and they should be. But parts of the media are painting a story of the world coming to an end for young college graduates entering the job market, a picture much bleaker than t...  show all text

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Rex’s last post reminds me that I’ve been meaning to write about one of the most fascinating science fiction worlds I’ve come across in a long time. I’m talking about The Culture novels of Iain M. Banks, which I want to compare with George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones [the TV show - I've not read the books]. I want to talk about the role of ethnic difference in narrative, but since Rex brought up the issue of bodies, let me first note that one of the interesting things about The Culture is that  show all text

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Blazing My Trail: Living and Thriving with Autism. Published by the author. Kindle, $7.99. Reviewed by Steve Silberman It's fashionable to say that autism has become a fashion. If you think overweening psychologists are hastily applying labels like Asperger syndrome to quirky nerds who should be perfectly capable of making their way in the world with no special help, assistance, or accommodations, you have plenty of company.  This past January, for example, the New York Times ran two op-eds in ...  show all text

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• Remembering the mother of POTUS An op-ed in the Washington Post explores the relationship between President Barack Obama and his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, a cultural anthropologist. It concludes that she shaped his “essence” in many ways including multilayered, multiethnic experiences and empathy. [Blogger's note: on Mother's Day, one can only wish she had lived to see her son's presidency]. • What do the evangelicals want? Cultural anthropologist Tanya Lurhmann, professor of cultural anthr...  show all text

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The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative invites applications for its 2010-2011 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowship program. The Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowships offer MSU graduate students in departments and programs with an emphasis on cultural heritage (Anthropology, History, Art History, Museum Studies, Historical & Cultural Geography, Classics, etc.) the theoretical and methodological skills necessary to creatively apply information, computing, and communication technolog...  show all text

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I recently came across a video of a relatively recent lecture which Ian Hacking gave at Huron University College, entitled, “The New Me: What Biotechnology may do to Personal Identity.”  The short (15 min) talk — embedded below — reprises many of the issues Hacking has been dealing with for the past several years (e.g.”Ian Hacking on commercial genome-reading,” “Genetics, biosocial groups & the future of identity,”).   Of course, in a broader way, these are the same issues he has been dealing ...  show all text

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Many immigrants from Nepal work in New York beauty salons, but giving pedicures can feel uncomfortable because in their homeland, women customarily don’t touch strangers’ feet.

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Anthropology is “determined to commit suicide” said David Graeber. To salvage the discipline Graeber encourages you to abandon building theory from Western philosophy. He provokes you to draw theory from your ethnographic experience. He writes: Where once we drew our theoretical terms – “totem,” “taboo,” “mana,” “potlatch” – from ethnography, causing Continental thinkers from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Sigmund Freud and Jean-Paul Sartre to feel the need to weigh in on the resulting debates, we have...  show all text

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The time has come for us to admit that psychiatric diagnosis is too important to be left exclusively in the hands of psychiatrists.

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A study by US researchers highlights a link between the loss of biologically rich areas and a decline in linguistic and cultural diversity.

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Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Carole McGranahan. Who is the audience for academic knowledge? When does that audience include not just fellow academics, but also the public? These questions are harder to answer than they should be. Our courses require enrollment and tuition. Our writings require effort to find and afford and read. Our conferences tend to be closed to outsiders and sometimes even to other scholars. As a profession, we simply do not have spaces where we regularly talk with an  show all text

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If Democrats want to reach more evangelical voters, they should use a political language that evangelicals can hear.

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