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Hearing Women Talk

Gal Irvine - Signs of Difference - Women Speak

Open Anthropology on gender, language, and power. “Hearing Women Talk” presents fascinating anthropological work on voices that have often been unheard.

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Anthropology as Open Marriage

Open Marriage - Shankman Public Anthropology Margaret Mead

When someone types “what is marriage?” into Google, anthropology should be all over the results. Margaret Mead offers lessons for anthropological expertise.

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Transformational Storytelling Anthropology

Ulysse - Transformational Storytelling Anthropology

Anthropology and Storytelling – Stories that must be told to transform the anthropocene. And yet: Can anthropology spell out relevance for a wider audience?

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Categories What is Anthropology? Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, culture, fieldwork, gender, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Nicholas Wade, race, racism, Tim Ingold 3 Comments

Testosterone Anthropology

Mothers and Others - Testosterone

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s intriguing ideas on testosterone changes in “Mothers and Others” is answered by longitudinal anthropology on fatherhood testosterone.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags evolution, gender, genetics, human nature, sexuality, textbooks 1 Comment

Childcare, Culture & Power

Meredith Small - Our Babies Ourselves

Meredith Small, “Our Babies, Ourselves” introduces many ways to raise babies, the biocultural of neurologically unfinished infants. But does this elide power?

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags anthropology branding, cultural relativism, culture, education, gender, human nature, Jared Diamond, textbooks 8 Comments

Valuing & Devaluing Anthropology

How might sharing anthropology change anthropological research and presentation? An anthropology of value and the value of anthropology during devaluation.

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Categories Anthropology Blogs Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, culture, gender, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, primatology, race, Sidney Mintz 18 Comments

Busting Myths

Agustin Fuentes: Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You

“Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You” launched Agustin Fuentes into a public defense of anthropology’s relevance.

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Darwin in Mind–The End

Complexities - Evolutionary Psychology - Darwin in Mind

“Darwin in Mind: New Opportunities for Evolutionary Psychology” (2011) marked the end of evolutionary psychology as foil for anthropology.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, culture, ethnobiogeny, evolution, gender, genetics, human nature, natural selection, niche construction, Nicholas Wade, politics 14 Comments

Fixing Sex

Kakazis - Fixing Sex

Katrina Karkazis, author of Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience, explores Olympic sex verification.

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Sex, Gender, Sexuality

Warnke - After Identity - Gender is a Social Construction

Anthropology insists sex, gender, and sexuality include human activity and imagination–explaining why “gender is a social construction”

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags culture, evolution, gender, genetics, human nature, sex, sexuality, textbooks, Tim Ingold 39 Comments

Teaching: Latin America & Caribbean 2012

Sanabria - Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean

Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean is less about “peoples and cultures” and more about processes at work across the Americas.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags cultural relativism, culture, gender, immigration, Jared Diamond, Latin America, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, race, race mixing, racism, sexuality, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 19 Comments

Elizabeth Brumfiel, In Memoriam

Elizabeth Brumfiel

Dr. Elizabeth Brumfiel, Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology at Northwestern University and an inspiring scholar, will be greatly missed.

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Categories Anthropologists Tags culture, education, gender, human nature, Latin America, political economy, politics 8 Comments

Four Field Manifesto

Communist Manifesto - Anthropology, Moral Optimism, Capitalism - Four Fields Manifesto

Anthropology’s Moral Optimism: Four Field Manifesto & alternative visions of humanity. Capitalism is not the most beautiful or respectful of shared planet.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, David Brooks, Eric Wolf, evolution, gender, human nature, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, occupy, planning, political economy, politics, primates, Sidney Mintz, Tim Ingold 59 Comments

Australopithecine Teeth & Gender

Australopithecine Teeth

Fascinating study of australopithecine teeth and residence patterns. Ridiculous headlines about gender and family. Anthropology analyzes science and media.

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Do anthropologists study everything?

Toward an Anthropology of Women - Anthropology is Necessary

Anthropologists don’t study everything. Anthropology studies important issues, in context, and gets real data. Anthropology is necessary.

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Categories What is Anthropology? Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, David Brooks, Eric Wolf, evolution, gender, political economy, Sidney Mintz 4 Comments

#EndFGM Together

Female Circumcision - Is female circumcision torture

Many commenters have described female circumcision as “torture.” Anthropology can respond without sensationalizing or approving.

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Anthropology, Ambushed

Conjuring Crisis - Ambushed

Anthropology got in the news for a “F— You Republicans” e-mail. Can anthropology survive the ambush? On understanding conservative victimhood politics.

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