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Upcoming Discussions to Enhance Career Prospects
Have you joined the Versatile PhD community yet? If not, you can do so at: www.versatilephd.com.…More
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AAA Mourns Loss of Elizabeth Brumfiel
It is with great sorrow that we report the passing of former American Anthropological Association…More
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AN Thematic Series on Methods
Even with anthropology’s great diversity of fields and specializations, methods anthropologists use to plan and…More
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Results of the 2011 Praxis Award Competition
The Praxis Award for Excellence in the Practice of Anthropology was established by the Washington…More
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AN Thematic Series on Family
Anthropology has a long history of examining kinship in a myriad of ways. As notions…More
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Upcoming Discussions to Enhance Career Prospects
Close Encounters of the Mashco Kind
Attack by an Isolated Indigenous Group in Peru The look on Casiano’s face was beginning to worry me. He had been helping me and Harvard ecologist Douglas Yu hack trails, scale trees and collect specimens...
Global Wood Politics
Gibson Guitar Style The recent saga of the Gibson guitar raid by the Fish and Wildlife Service continues to heat up. On November 2, Gibson CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz wrote an Op-Ed in the Huffington Post...
January SAFN News
Identity, Consumption, and the Role of Food in the Occupy Wall Street Movement By now most SAFN members and other readers of Anthropology News are familiar with the Occupy Wall Street movement. What few...
Biotechnology, Agriculture and Anthropology
How We Can Help Advances in biotechnology are now essential for our survival as a species. The reason lies in its importance for agriculture. In the early 1960s, many of the world’s most populous countries...
Egg Freezing in Israel
A Biotech Breakthrough? In 2011, the Israeli Ministry of Health approved a policy that permits women between the ages of 30–41 to freeze their eggs for “social purposes.” This marks a departure from...
Risk, Regulation and Resistance
The Ongoing Debate over Genetically Modified Corn in Mexico Corn continues to dominate public debates over biotechnology in Mexico–even today, a decade after the finding of transgenes in cornfields in...
A Hands-on View of Biotechnology
What Do We Learn from Seeing It as a Form of Work? Agricultural biotechnology is often discussed in anthropology as a commodity. This implies it is a discrete object with impacts and meanings, similar...Featured Posts
Close Encounters of the Mashco Kind
Attack by an Isolated Indigenous Group in Peru The look on Casiano’s face was beginning to worry me. He had…More
Global Wood Politics
Gibson Guitar Style The recent saga of the Gibson guitar raid by the Fish and Wildlife Service continues to heat…More
Biotechnology, Agriculture and Anthropology
How We Can Help Advances in biotechnology are now essential for our survival as a species. The reason lies in…More
Egg Freezing in Israel
A Biotech Breakthrough? In 2011, the Israeli Ministry of Health approved a policy that permits women between the ages of…More
Risk, Regulation and Resistance
The Ongoing Debate over Genetically Modified Corn in Mexico Corn continues to dominate public debates over biotechnology in Mexico–even today,…More
Genetically Modified Crops
From St Louis to India Anthropology may have been slow to engage the issue of genetically modified (GM) crops, but…More