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Anthro in the news 11/17/14
A taste for service and adventure Bloomberg Business News reported on the origins and ongoing success of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders. On a budget of €952...
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Anthro in the news 2/23/15
On endless bureaucracy, forms, and mindless work Gillian Tett, cultural anthropologist and writer for The Financial Times, reviewed David Graeber’s latest book, The Utopia of Rules: “His new book…asks...
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Anthro in the news 3/9/15 and 3/16/15
What makes a car great? Well-off Chinese consumers want Japanese toilets. Credit: AFP. Gillian Tett, columnist for The Financial Times and an anthropologist by training, describes the increasing...
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anthro in the news 8/10/15
Politics and dirty water: A recipe for poor health An article in the Mail and Guardian (South Africa) describes the role of politics in the mishandling of water treatment in South Africa It is...
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anthro in the news 8/24/15
Islamic State vision driven by dreams An article in the Independent (U.K.) draws on a recent paper by Durham University emeritus reader in anthropology Iain Edgar regarding the role of night dreaming...
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anthro in the news 10/12/2015
Caption: Artemisia annua which yields an anti-malarial drug, source: WikipediaNobel Prize catalyzes controversy in China The New York Times reported on reactions in China about its first Nobel...
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anthro in the news 11/23/2015
As of November 21, Brussels was on high alert for a possible terrorist attack. source: Smirnoff, Creative Commons What does ISIS want? CBS (Minnesota) carried a brief interview with cultural...
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anthro in the news 11/30/2015
ISIS recruits through friends and social media An article in the New York Times on ISIS recruitment provides extensive commentary from cultural anthropologist Scott Atran, co-founder of the Center for...
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The ‘wall of virtue’ that surrounds followers of Isis will not be broken down...
by Sean Carey Source: The Tablet “Sectarianism involves strong feelings, deep resentment, a searing sense of injustice, above all, anger,” explained renowned British social anthropologist Mary Douglas...
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anthro in the news 12/28/2015
Source: Google Images/Creative Commons To address ISIS, social science essential Two social scientists at the University of Oxford,, one a social anthropologist and the other an economist, co-authored...
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