National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
A roundup of Anthropology in the News for September 2016. On the National SceneAnthropologists and the American Anthropological Association are among those opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. CNN continues to offer its version of “political anthropology” of the US election…
What are some of the other websites and blogs that track anthropology-in-the-news and practicing anthropology? Here are some “highly cited” places on the web to follow. All of the sites and blogs below may be followed on Twitter, some on…
Welcome back to the academy, students and faculty! As we watch Labor Day in the rearview mirror, the northern hemisphere’s colleges and universities are all in full operation. Our “back to school special” is a list of all the subfields…
The Olympics just ended, the American presidential election campaigns are in full swing, and academic anthropologists are returning to the classroom after summer travel and research. But today let’s focus on how practicing anthropologists are raising the profile of our…
Thank you to Mella Baker for reminding us that not all anthropologist heroes are white and male. Welcome to anthropology! I haven’t looked at the demographics of our field recently, but I assume we still have a ways to go…
“Humans are weird, wonderful, and irrational. How do we help them to change their at-work behavior in ways that will make them feel smarter and more productive?” (Microsoft Careers Page) Have an anthropologist help you with that, of course! I…
Q: So… what can you do with your anthropology degree? A: Anything you want. Applied Anthropology was one of my favorite classes at NC State University. Before the first meeting with the lecturing professor, I imagined we would learn…
American Presidential Politics Earlier this month Brexit was THE topic in the American media. NOW it is presidential politics. How would anthropologists explain the popularity of Donald Trump? There are several possibilities: An historian offers Emile Durkheim‘s “collective efferevescence,” but…
Q: So… what can you do with your anthropology degree? A: Anything you want. Over the past two years, as I was getting my MA in Anthropology at NC State University, I “managed” to be in course overload every…
Q: So… what can you do with your anthropology degree? A: Anything you want. I was sipping my espresso and reading my book in a coffee shop on the shore of Lake Atitlán when someone tried to strike a…
From the Field (Where Else?) We do get around. Leave it to anthropologists to support adding insects to the American diet (see photo), to defend mosquitoes in our built environment, to appreciate the role of elves in Icelandic history and…
NAPA is happy to announce the re-launch of AnthroCurrents, a bi-weekly look at anthropology in the news. Anthropology of Climate Change In the online magazine, popmatters, a review of the 2015 documentary film “The Anthropologist” (screened at the Independent Film…