AnthroCurrents May 24, 2017

Fixing corruption is just one of many results a new development consulting firm in Bangladesh has accomplished.  The startup boasts anthropology and design thinking are the keys to sustainable solutions to real-life problems.  Pretty cool.

This article is basically saying you can get a degree in anthropology…as long as you work in computer science rather than education.  Mostly for the money.

An overview of how prom has become a place to contest sexuality & identity as an American adolescent rite of passage.

Top Chef judge Gail Simmons talks about her anthropology degree and what food ritual speaks to her.

Can you really just create a new language?  A linguist and anthropologist are giving it a shot.  Fascinating to hear that the default is English when Slavic languages are so similar.

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