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SUNTA Graduate Paper Prize Competition
The Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology is pleased to announce its graduate paper prize…More
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AN Seeks Proposals on Waste
Trash, garbage, junk, refuse, pollution. Sanitation work, environmental justice, freecycle, reuse. Waste can provide logistical…More
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Public Anthropology in Greek Crisis
The first Program on Everyday Life and Culture in Greece was recently instituted at The…More
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2012 NAPA Student Achievement Award
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA ) is now accepting submissions for the Ninth…More
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Anthropology News Wins 2012 EXCEL Award
The Anthropology News website won the 2012 EXCEL Award! The announcement was made in today’s…More
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SUNTA Graduate Paper Prize Competition
Living with the Spirits: Ghost Stories of Southern Belize
“Oh, there’s lat’a ghost down deh.” “A lot of what?” I asked, wanting to be sure I understood the statement in Kriol. “Ghosts – I ‘fraid fo go down deh.” Thus went my conversation with...
Of Aquifers and Islands
In April, AAA’s Global Climate Change Task Force members Shirley Fiske, Ben Orlove, Susie Crate (via Skype), and I had the opportunity to visit with members of the American Ethnological Society at...
Sonic Ethnography as Method and in Practice
Urban Students, Sounds and Making Sense of Science In the winter of 2009 I began working in four classrooms across Akron Public Schools as part of a longitudinal interpretive study designed to examine...
Mixed Methods Should Be a Valued Practice in Anthropology
Methods are systematic, socially agreed upon ways to represent the world. Mixed methods integrate qualitative and quantitative evidence through intentional efforts to focus “on research questions...
Tracking Change in Rural Kenya through the Study of Domestic Groups
A Family Portrait Simon is a thoughtful, well spoken, 34-year-old secondary school science and math teacher. He is uncommon in that he has a university degree. He lives in a traditional wattle and daub...
Moral Engagement and Social Responsibility in the Public Realm
Melissa Rinehart. Photo courtesy Jamie Harmon The number of natural disasters that have occurred since Haiti’s devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010 is bewildering. Victims of such tragedies face...
Coming to Terms with Networked Anthropology
It’s happening on your campus now—students in your classes are uploading media about their varied ethnographic projects. Sometimes these photos, films, audio and text end up on blogs, YouTube and Flickr...
On Happiness
The March 2012 American Anthropologist (AA) features the Vital Topics Forum “On Happiness.” We are pleased to share Barbara Rose Johnston’s introduction to this forum below and invite...Featured Posts
Living with the Spirits: Ghost Stories of Southern Belize
“Oh, there’s lat’a ghost down deh.” “A lot of what?” I asked, wanting to be sure I understood the statement…More
Of Aquifers and Islands
In April, AAA’s Global Climate Change Task Force members Shirley Fiske, Ben Orlove, Susie Crate (via Skype), and I had…More
Sonic Ethnography as Method and in Practice
Urban Students, Sounds and Making Sense of Science In the winter of 2009 I began working in four classrooms across…More
Mixed Methods Should Be a Valued Practice in Anthropology
Methods are systematic, socially agreed upon ways to represent the world. Mixed methods integrate qualitative and quantitative evidence through intentional…More
Tracking Change in Rural Kenya through the Study of Domestic Groups
A Family Portrait Simon is a thoughtful, well spoken, 34-year-old secondary school science and math teacher. He is uncommon in…More
Moral Engagement and Social Responsibility in the Public Realm
The number of natural disasters that have occurred since Haiti’s devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010 is bewildering. Victims of…More