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Submissions for SEA Harold K Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology due June 20 (extended)
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Abstracts for 2014 Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) annual meeting due Oct 15
From the Career Center
Postdoctoral fellowship in museum studies and Postdoctoral fellowship in Native American studies at Brown U
Assistant or associate professor of anthropology at U California Los Angeles
Laboratory manager at U Minnesota
Two postdoctoral research positions at U Göttingen
Postdoctoral fellow in the medical anthropology at U Pittsburgh
Visiting assistant professor in archaeology and/or biological anthropology at U Central Arkansas
Kaya-Pop
The Brave New World of Indigenous Music in Brazil Kayapó pop star Bepdjyre. Video still courtesy Tatajyre Kayapó The lead singer crooning catchy pop lyrics, the gyrating chorus-line of girls in mini-skirts,...
The Anthropologist as Reader
Walk of Ideas, Berlin. Photo courtesy of Scholz & Friends Sensai, wikicommons A quarter century ago, Clifford Geertz published Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Widely seen as part of...
Pastoralism’s Crisis in East Africa
Lower Valley of the Omo River, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and inhabitants of Southern Ethiopia. Photo courtesy AnnaMaria Donnoli, Wikicommons. Anthropology has a long history in East Africa. Well-known...
“A Multiply Wounded Country”
The Legacies of Crisis in Nicaraguan Migration An afternoon shower in Achuapa. Photo courtesy Caitlin Fouratt Over the course of more than 17 months of fieldwork with Nicaraguan migrants in Costa Rica...
The Order of Crisis
Crisis as a Political Tool in Cyprus Contextualizing the Politics of Crisis Paralimni Collage. Photo courtesy Berkaysnklf Wikimedia CommonsEven though the Cyprus financial crisis exploded onto global newsfeeds...
Toxic Talk
Power of Discourse Analysis for Understanding the Impacts of Environmental Crises on Native American Communities Anatomy of an Environmental Crisis Walpole Island First Nation or Bkejwanong, which means...
Afghanistan is a Mess and Other Lies that You Have Been Told
Manipulating Narratives of Crisis and International Intervention Pick up any newspaper over the past 12 months, and there are fairly good odds it will include an editorial about “the crisis in Afghanistan.”...
Postcard from Istanbul
Anatomy of a Crisis When Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan left for his four-day tour of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria on Monday, June 3, the mood in many Turkish cities could not have been more...Featured Posts
Kaya-Pop
The Brave New World of Indigenous Music in Brazil The lead singer crooning catchy pop lyrics, the gyrating chorus-line of…More
The Anthropologist as Reader
A quarter century ago, Clifford Geertz published Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Widely seen as part of the…More
Pastoralism’s Crisis in East Africa
Anthropology has a long history in East Africa. Well-known works by Dyson-Hudson and Evans-Pritchard have introduced generations of undergraduate students…More
“A Multiply Wounded Country”
The Legacies of Crisis in Nicaraguan Migration Over the course of more than 17 months of fieldwork with Nicaraguan migrants…More
The Order of Crisis
Crisis as a Political Tool in Cyprus Contextualizing the Politics of Crisis Even though the Cyprus financial crisis exploded onto…More
Toxic Talk
Power of Discourse Analysis for Understanding the Impacts of Environmental Crises on Native American Communities Anatomy of an Environmental Crisis…More