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…
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…
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…
A biweekly look at recent stories on anthropology and practicing anthropologists in the popular media Anthropology in Medicine It will surprise no one here that anthropologists are among the specialists being sent to Africa to handle the Ebola outbreak. They will help determine the best ways to approach the public and prevent the virus from…
A biweekly look at recent stories on anthropology and practicing anthropologists in the popular media AnthroBasics: Food. Water. Shelter. In a video update of an earlier TEDx Talk, Wenonah Hauter warns about the dangers of privatizing poultry inspection. Hauter is the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch and an applied anthropologist. You can watch…
A biweekly look at recent stories on anthropology and practicing anthropologists in the popular media Our Electronic Lives Netflix hired anthropologist Grant McCracken to look at “binge-watching.” Be sure to get off your couch if Grant comes knocking on your door! Anthropology gets the nod in an article about parents ignoring their kids while they…
[TWIAN (i.e., This Week in Anthropology) focuses on issues of anthropological practice that are of interest to the NAPA Anthro membership. The following post from Savage Minds.] This time it’s Joana writing on her own as for the past two years my life has been largely taken over by an enterprise in which Pál only plays…
[TWIAN (i.e., This Week in Anthropology) focuses on issues of anthropological practice that are of interest to the NAPA Anthro membership. The following post from Ethnography.com reminds us of the value of languages. I was reminded of the importance of foreign language learning twice in the last week or so. This morning I read a…
The American Anthropological Associations’s new “Profiles in Practice Podcast Series” is the topic of This Week in Anthropology. Podcasting has finally arrived into the world of Practicing Anthropologists! In 2007-08, the Practicing Anthropology Working Group (PAWG), with Shirley Fiske serving as an editor, began the “Profiles in Practice” column in Anthropology News. The purpose was…
[TWIAN (i.e., This Week in Anthropology) focuses on issues of anthropological practice that are of interest to the NAPA Anthro membership. The following post from Savage Minds is a worderful recap of 2009. Everyone loves end of year reviews, even if they’re a couple days late. And we’re no exception. Here are some of the…
[TWIAN (i.e., This Week in Anthropology) focuses on issues of anthropological practice that are of interest to the NAPA Anthro membership. The following post from Ethnography.com is a timely way to start the year since many of us are involved in academia. Here we are in the 2nd half of the academic year. If the 1st…
The National Association For The Practice of Anthropology is a section of The American Anthropological Association (AAA) – contact GC