The Foraging Spectrum – and a spectrum of anthropology
In the last few anthropology report updates, have been featuring some anthropology books along with anthropology blogs, especially the books the bloggers are writing about and reviewing. I hope to keep...
View ArticleAnthropology on Noble Savages, Napoleon Chagnon
Not even finished with Anthropology on Jared Diamond – The World Until Yesterday and now Napoleon Chagnon splashes in with Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes–the Yanomamo and the...
View ArticleMarshall Sahlins, National Academy of Sciences, Napoleon Chagnon
This page tracks the Marshall Sahlins resignation from the National Academy of Sciences, as a complement to the page tracking anthropology-oriented reviews of Noble Savages by Napoleon Chagnon. See...
View ArticleSpecial Issue on Michel-Rolph Trouillot: Journal of Haitian Studies CFP
In homage to Michel-Rolph Truouillot, brilliant anthropologist and mentor we lost in 2012, posting a special issue call for papers from the Journal of Haitian Studies. For more on Trouillot see In...
View ArticleAnthropology on Jared Diamond – The World Until Yesterday
Jared Diamond splashes in with The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? Anthropology on Jared Diamond has always been curious–many people consider Diamond to be an...
View ArticleUpdate 23 January 2013 – Anthropology of Development & more!
Recently coming across the anthropology blog-feed. Lots of stuff! In the middle is a a short sub-theme mix on anthropology and development, aid, Africa. Also scroll down for some announcements and...
View ArticleLinks: Marriage and Other Arrangements – Critique du don
Featured book is Alain Testart’s Critique du don, as links go from the American Anthropological Association to Savage Minds to some off-the-beaten-path anthropology. Marriage and Other Arrangements....
View ArticleAnthropology Links and Featured Book – Teaching Africa
Lots of interesting stuff on the anthropology blogs and anthropology newswire. Here’s a selection. Featured book is Teaching Africa: A Guide for the 21st-Century Classroom. Microbiomes R Us — another...
View ArticleCultural Anthropology 2013: Human Nature & Public Debates
It was a great honor and privilege to be invited to deliver the Cultural Anthropology overview for the Five Fields Update sponsored by the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges. Special thanks...
View ArticleAnthropology Blogs 2014
Anthropology Blogs are a way to understand What is Anthropology. For 2014 I revisited the previous 2013 Anthropology Blogs and 2012 Anthropology Blogs. The blogs included here have all published since...
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