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Submissions for SEA Harold K Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology due June 20 (extended)
Entries for 2013 AAA Photo Contest due Jun 30
Proposals for AN series on the Public and Private due Jul 9
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
The World is Curved
A quarter century ago, Clifford Geertz published Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Widely seen as part of the…More
Perception of the world begins with the construction of paracosms—imaginings of the wider world outside—outside our door, our city, our…More
My previous two columns have addressed the crisis in higher education from familiar standpoints. I hope I made some original…More
The Crisis in Higher Ed., pt. 2
It has been more than ten years since the publication of Murray Sperber’s scathing critique of college sports, Beer and…More
Crisis in Higher Ed, Part 1
One major point of post-election commentary—apart from the fiscal cliff kabuki—has been speculation on the agenda for President Obama’s second…More
Election Night Thoughts
The results of the recent election inevitably lead to speculation about the future of the two-party system in the United…More
The Progressive Grotesque
In Wyoming, long before many other places, the killing chill creeps down the mountainsides to tint the leaves yellow and…More
Wall Street Vampires and Wal-Mart Zombies
The zombie apocalypse has been with us for some time, certainly since George Romero’s original Night of the Living Dead.…More
The World is Curved
First, a note about the title of this column/blog, The World is Curved. Obviously, this refers to the New York…More