Hearing Women Talk
Open Anthropology on gender, language, and power. “Hearing Women Talk” presents fascinating anthropological work on voices that have often been unheard.
Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility
Open Anthropology on gender, language, and power. “Hearing Women Talk” presents fascinating anthropological work on voices that have often been unheard.
When someone types “what is marriage?” into Google, anthropology should be all over the results. Margaret Mead offers lessons for anthropological expertise.
Anthropology and Storytelling – Stories that must be told to transform the anthropocene. And yet: Can anthropology spell out relevance for a wider audience?
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s intriguing ideas on testosterone changes in “Mothers and Others” is answered by longitudinal anthropology on fatherhood testosterone.
Meredith Small, “Our Babies, Ourselves” introduces many ways to raise babies, the biocultural of neurologically unfinished infants. But does this elide power?
How might sharing anthropology change anthropological research and presentation? An anthropology of value and the value of anthropology during devaluation.
“Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You” launched Agustin Fuentes into a public defense of anthropology’s relevance.
“Darwin in Mind: New Opportunities for Evolutionary Psychology” (2011) marked the end of evolutionary psychology as foil for anthropology.
Katrina Karkazis, author of Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience, explores Olympic sex verification.
Anthropology insists sex, gender, and sexuality include human activity and imagination–explaining why “gender is a social construction”
Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean is less about “peoples and cultures” and more about processes at work across the Americas.
Dr. Elizabeth Brumfiel, Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology at Northwestern University and an inspiring scholar, will be greatly missed.
Anthropology’s Moral Optimism: Four Field Manifesto & alternative visions of humanity. Capitalism is not the most beautiful or respectful of shared planet.
Fascinating study of australopithecine teeth and residence patterns. Ridiculous headlines about gender and family. Anthropology analyzes science and media.
Anthropologists don’t study everything. Anthropology studies important issues, in context, and gets real data. Anthropology is necessary.
Many commenters have described female circumcision as “torture.” Anthropology can respond without sensationalizing or approving.
Anthropology got in the news for a “F— You Republicans” e-mail. Can anthropology survive the ambush? On understanding conservative victimhood politics.