Anthropological publishing is undergoing rapid change as digital technologies, new forms of presentation, and an increasing desire to move to the free distribution of knowledge unfold. Whether existing models of publishing can be sustained is questionable. The AAA is currently assessing its own publication program and seeking to understand how that articulates with the wider [...]
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For faculty teaching medical anthropology courses this fall, the following materials may be helpful. I collected these lists with the assistance of Andrea Sankar, co-editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Janet Dixon Keller, editor of Ethos, in order to save teachers time as they refresh their thinking about these oft-taught topics. Where possible, I linked to the [...]
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What does it mean to cast obesity as a disease? Tina Moffat argues in a recent Medical Anthropology Quarterly article that some critical anthropologists and sociologists see the obesity “epidemic” as entirely “socially-constructed.” By talking about obesity as an epidemic, Moffat points out that the implication is that obesity is a disease. The article interrogates [...]
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For the inaugural virtual issue of American Anthropologist, Editor Tom Boellstorff created “The Anthropology of Language”. The theme, deliberately broad, allows readers to track ways in which language has been central to anthropological inquiry from its beginnings but in differing ways over the years and with differing linkages to other domains of anthropological scholarship. The [...]
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In the latest issue of American Anthropologist, David Vine thoughtfully reviews Robert Borofsky’s Center for a Public Anthropology and its four major projects. Vine discusses the role the Center has played outside the world of academia and includes discussion on the highly successful and innovative Community Action Project. This unique project teaches university students how [...]
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We welcome this guest blog post by PoLAR editor, Elizabeth Mertz (U Wisconsin-Madison). Don’t miss the latest from PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review The November 2010 Special Issue on NGOs …and a companion Virtual Issue on NGOs PoLAR continues its OPEN ACCESS original on-line content: Follow our ongoing discussion of the emerging Anthropology of Crime: [...]
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The December 2010 issue of Ethos examines motherhood through the ethnographers’ eyes. As its editors, Kathleen Barlow and Bambi Chapin explain: By looking closely at everyday interactions between mothers and children as they unfolded in a context of interested others, we were learning not only about the cultural world of the adults, but about how cultural orientations are [...]
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Read this powerful virtual issue from Museum Anthropology The Deafening Silence: NAGPRA, Repatriation, and the Pages of Museum Anthropology In the 20 years since the passage of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), an astonishingly small number of contributions with “repatriation” or “reburial” in the title have been published in Museum [...]
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In the September issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly, anthropologist Seth D. Messinger looks to the themes of embodiment and subjectivity while contrasting two models of physical rehabilitation. The first model, found at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center Amputee Patient Care Program, focuses on the functionality of the physical body by using physical activity and [...]
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