(click to listen) Hosted by AAA President Virginia R. Dominguez, “Inside the President’s Studio” features interviews with anthropologists about their ideas, research and passions. It is part of an ongoing effort to foster public, visible and active engagement with anthropologists. Become a part of the conversation by reading and listening to the interviews, adding your [...]
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Lace up your running shoes this April in the Race for RACE. In memory of Alan Jaffe, the San Diego Museum of Man is hosting their very first 5k run. The race will start and finish in front of the San Diego Museum of Man. The course runs through beautiful Balboa Park. Sign up now [...]
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Today’s guest blog post is from Glenn Swift, the Assistant Producer of a new series on the National Geographic Channel, called History Cold Case. Swift is looking to you for help with this new television show and hopes you will contact him if you have a skeleton that fits the show’s needs. Thank you Glenn! [...]
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Congratulations to Yolanda Moses! Dr. Moses will be honored tonight with the Riverside NAACP Freedom Fund Award for her work with the community and the RACE: Are We So Different? exhibit that was recently on tour at the Riverside Metropolitan Museum. Because of the exhibit’s presence, it ”spurred dialogue and emphasized the commonalities among all people” in [...]
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AAA has a new member database. The new AnthroGateway provides members with new opportunities and features you will soon find essential. Here are just a few you’ll want to get started on right away: Manage your personal information Upload a profile photo Change your password Search for fellow members by interest, institution or language You will also [...]
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Daniel Odess is the Assistant Associate Director for Park Cultural Resources of the National Park Service. He forwarded along this newly released job posting. Please apply to the position in accordance to the directions of the post and direct any questions in regards to the position to the designated contact in the post. Thanks Daniel for the announcement! All, I wanted to let [...]
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The discovery of stone tools, made by modern humans suggest that they escaped their ancestral homelands much earlier than originally suspected. The tools were discovered from an archaeological site called Jebel Faya in today’s United Arab Emirates. AAA member and palaeontologist at the Natural Museum of London, Christopher Stringer speaks with the New York Times [...]
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AAA was one of 23 academic organizations that released a joint statement of response to the recent attacks on Professor Frances Fox Piven, renown professor of the University of New York Graduate Center. The statement condemns Glenn Beck, radio and television personality, for his attacks on Piven and calls for public officials and political commentators to help [...]
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“I Saw God in Tahrir”
We welcome a third post by guest blogger Yasmin Moll. Yasmin shares additional insight from Cairo, Egypt. Thank you Yasmin! Many commentators both inside and outside Egypt have focused on the anticipated role of the Muslim Brotherhood in a post-Mubarak Egypt. In many of these analyses, the Brotherhood is used as a metonym for the projected [...]
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