California Newsreel has posted online a free preview version of Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness. This is the third installment of their new monthly online preview feature, enabling visitors to watch selected films prior to purchase. The film examines the complex life and work of scholar Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963). See the official website [...]
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A new issue of AnthroNotes is now online (download pdf). Managing editor Ann Kaupp notes, “In celebration of the opening of a new Human Origins Hall at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum, the spring issue of AnthroNotes is a special, expanded issue focused entirely on human origins.” It includes articles by Human Origins Program Director [...]
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The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is accepting applications for Kluge Fellowships that offer post-doctoral scholars an opportunity to conduct humanistic and social science research in the Library’s collections. The fellowships (up to $4,200/mo.) are awarded for periods of up to 12 months and are open to scholars worldwide with a PhD [...]
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The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education, has released The Condition of Education 2010. The report presents 49 indicators on the status of education in the US (supplemented by online resources). This year it includes a special section on high-poverty schools. See the [...]
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A Michigan Discussions in Anthropology volume (#18) on anthropology graduate student socialization is now available free for download through the University of Michigan Library. Eli Thorkelson’s chapter “Experience, Reflexive Socialization and Disciplinary Order in Anthropology” introduces the volume. He notes of contributors, We take up a wide range of topics, ranging from anti-racist departmental activism [...]
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On May 22, the New York Times featured “Families’ Every Fuss, Archived and Analyzed,” highlighting the research of UCLA linguistic anthropologist and AAA member Elinor Ochs. Ochs directs the UCLA Center on Everyday Lives of Families, a Sloan Center on Working Families that examines “how members of middle class working families create a home life [...]
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The deadline to submit an article proposal to Anthropology News for our December issue on music and sound has been extended to next Tuesday, June 1. For the full call for proposals, including theme description and submission instructions, see our website or click the “read more” link below. To participate, email a 300-word abstract and [...]
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AAA Members: This is your last opportunity to vote in the 2010 AAA election! Please take a moment now to log on and make your voice heard. Simply go to http://eballot3.votenet.com/aaa/login.cfm and submit the username and password emailed to you by AAA. Feel free to vote only for the slates that you want to. Want [...]
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The deadline to submit an article proposal to Anthropology News for our November issue on tourism or December issue on music and sound is next Tuesday, May 25. For the full CFPs with theme descriptions, see our website. We welcome proposals for In Focus commentaries, Teaching Strategies, Field Notes articles, photo essays, news stories, interviews [...]
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Neandertal Genomics and Race
Thanks to Seth Dobson (Dartmouth C) for the following guest post: Biological anthropologists regularly tell their the students that the patterning of biological variation among recent human populations does not the fit the expectations of a subspecies level of taxonomic classification. In other words, there are no “races” in a genetic sense. But students are [...]
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