National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
A biweekly look at recent stories on anthropology and practicing anthropologists in the popular media Summer Books Nicholas Wade’s new book A Troublesome Inheritance has been in the news for a few weeks now, but criticisms of his ideas linking genetics to social behaviors continue to mount. You can’t swing a fossilized Australopithecus without hitting…
Karen Greenough is a Junior Researcher working in Burkina Faso at the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL). Her career trajectory stemmed from her earlier work in Niger, where she was posted as a Peace Corps Volunteer and returned afterwards to live and learn about the region.
A biweekly look at recent stories on anthropology and practicing anthropologists in the popular media Just in time for summer, New Republic offers this amusing anthropological perspective on locals coping with tourists. It was just a matter of time before Game of Thrones made it into AnthroCurrents. The blog Making Game of Thrones interviewed linguist David Peterson…
Timothy de Waal Malefyt has been a leading strategist in brand development for 15 years, working with companies like BBDO Worldwide and D’Arcy in New York and Benton & Bowles in Detroit.
Hi, I’m Pam Puntenney and Chair of NAPA’s Lourdes Arizpe Award, a high profile initiative integrating external and internal engagement of our community of anthropologists. NAPA has created this award as an opportunity to recognize recent outstanding achievement in the application of anthropology to problems of global concern and discourse in international or domestic arenas…
A biweekly look at recent stories on anthropology and practicing anthropologists in the popular media In the Field The Lethbridge Herald covers the research of Jillian King, a graduate student in anthropology, who is interviewing Canadian parents about why they are vaccinating their children (or not). Immunization has been a hot topic in both the…
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