The Members’ Programmatic, Advisory, and Advocacy Committee (MPAAC) is off to a flying start with new policy and ethics projects underway.
March
Call for Pitches: Graphic Ethnography
This summer, the Anthropology News magazine turns comic. We will look at the growing interest in using drawings as ethnographic fieldwork method and the process of transforming research into comic forms and graphic novels. We’ll explore the creative work of anthropologist-cartoonists and imaginative collaborations between anthropologists and cartoonists.
How to Improve Consumer DNA Tests
Direct-to-consumer genetic tests offer tantalizing yet speculative promises to connect us with our distant past and live a healthier life, but there are a host of bioethical issues.
Ten Things Archaeology Tells Us about Neanderthals
In the past three decades, advances in methods from excavation to analysis have painted a captivating fresh portrait of Neanderthals, our closest relatives. Here are 10 things we’ve learned.
The Racial Thinking behind ALS Diagnosis
Beliefs about which bodies can and cannot develop certain diseases risk rebiologizing race in genomic research and care.
Of Maps, Ancestors, and Genes
How the conceptual heritage of the new and old world pervades today’s racial economy of genetics.
The Next Piece of Our Big Genetic Puzzle
Around 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals contributed their DNA to modern humans. But the genes also flowed the other way, hundreds of thousands of years before.
Bovine Bloodlines
Selective breeding for milk and muscle has corroded cattle health and genetic diversity. Heritage breed farmers are pushing back.
Highlighting Accessibility Issues through #AccessibleAnthChat
On March 9, the American Anthropological Association hosted a successful #AccessibleAnthChat on Twitter, focusing on the issue of fieldwork accessibility.
Trump’s First World Revivalism Pits Globalization against Development
What anthropologists glean from policy makers’ statements about globalization and development can be very different from what most voters hear.
