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Olympic Trials and Cultural Configurations
Notes from a Midwest Boxing Gym Over the past two years, I have carried out fieldwork in a Midwest boxing gym in order to better understand the sport in its various social dimensions (from gyms, to...
View ArticleUpcoming SUNTA Prize Announcements and Deadlines
SUNTA Graduate Paper Prize Submissions due September 15, 2012. SUNTA is pleased to announce its graduate paper prize competition. We are seeking nominations – by faculty – of student papers that...
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Announcing George D Spindler’s “Two Anthropologists Loose in North America”
Louise and George Spindler. Photo courtesy George Spindler After a lifetime of scholarship, the 92-year old George D Spindler has written a personal narrative about his life with Louise Spindler, who...
View ArticleIntroducing climate-change-anthro Listserv
The American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) Global Climate Change Task Force is pleased to introduce a new listserv for those with an interest in the intersection of anthropology and climate...
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Boundaries of a Veiled Female Body
Islamic Reflections on Women’s Sporting Bodies in Relation to Sexuality, Modesty and Privacy As 2012 London Olympics approached, heated debates arose around the question of Muslim women’s participation...
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Language, Music and Social Structures at the Battle of Little Big Horn
The death of George Armstrong Custer and his men in at the Battle of Little Big Horn in June 1876 shocked a nation celebrating its centennial. The story is often told as the defeat of white men at...
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Where are the Activists?
The town square is filled with parades and parties throughout the year, but never with protestors. Why? Photo by douglas reeser. On a recent morning, while writing at my computer and having some...
View ArticleColonial Woes and Conflicts of Latin American and Spanish Soccer Fans during...
Currently, skepticism in the scientific community over social media and their ability to accurately reflect the trends and opinions of different social and cultural groups is diminishing. Following...
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Unthreatening the Sikh Turban
August has been a painful month for Sikhs living in the United States and worldwide. The August 5th shootings at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek Wisconsin brought up urgent issues of racial discrimination...
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Golden Legacies, Uncertain Futures
Athletics, Ambivalence, and Transformation in Post-Soviet Cuba During the summer of 2004, thirteen years into the economic austerity of the “special period in peacetime” originally brought on by the...
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Chanasai Tiengtrakul
Chanasai Tiengtrakul Chanasai Tiengtrakul, 47, director of global studies and assistant professor of anthropology, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri, passed way of pancreatic cancer after six...
View ArticleProposals for Series on Collaboration Due Aug 16
Anthropologists have long struggled with how to best coordinate our research meaningfully and effectively with others. Approaches have ranged dramatically. Many are content to share the analyzed and...
View ArticleDwight Heath
Dwight Heath (Brown U) and Anna Cooper Heath are being honored by Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology by a special exhibition. The Spirit of the Thing Given displays some of the thousands of...
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Myron J Aronoff
Myron J Aronoff. Photo Courtesy Rutgers U Myron J Aronoff (professor emeritus of political science, anthropology, and Jewish studies at Rutgers University and visiting professor emeritus of political...
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Maris Gillette
Maris Gillette Maris Gillette (Haverford C) received a European Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship for 2013-14, and will be in residence at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies for the...
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Bill Maurer
Bill Maurer. Photo courtesy UC Irvine Bill Maurer (UC Irvine) has been named dean of the School of Social Sciences of University of California–Irvine, the largest academic unit on campus. Maurer is...
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Dorothy Hodgson
Dorothy Hodgson Dorothy Hodgson (Rutgers U–New Brunswick) was awarded a Residential Fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy and a Faculty Fellowship from the National...
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Jennifer S Wistrand
Jennifer S Wistrand. Photo courtesy ACLS The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce Jennifer Wistrand (Washington U–St Louis) as one of the 2013 cohort of ACLS Public Fellows. She...
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Uzi Baram
Uzi Baram, on the right. Photo courtesy New College Uzi Baram (New C Florida) and his students were recognized by the City of Sarasota on June 17, 2013 for their work over several years on the Galilee...
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Robert P Weller
Robert P Weller. Photo courtesy Boston U Robert P Weller (Boston U), was recently awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. “A Guggenheim Fellowship is one of the most...
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