Anthropology Now: Looking at Cooking
If public commentary is correct, cooking is in decline. In a long essay in The New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan argues that Americans have gone “out of the kitchen and onto the couch.” He asks...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: On the Disaster in Connecticut
Lawrence Palinkas, a medical anthropologist and a professor of social work at the University of Southern California has studied the aftermath of man-made and natural disasters on communities. He...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: Arming Ourselves to Death
When I was a graduate student I remember reading an account by an anthropologist of Africa who watched helplessly as local communities responded to a virulent epidemic by coming together not to...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: Targeting the Gun Question The “Culture War” in Scope
A lineup of hot-button issues has plagued the political life of the United States for decades, at least since the 1970s: abortion, sexualities, religion, evolution, censorship, recreational drugs,...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: An Anthropologist Weighs In on the Newtown Massacre
For Anthropology Now, December 20, 2012 Something horrible just happened in my new home state of Connecticut, a mass murder. Twenty defenseless six-year-olds and six adults were murdered in cold blood...
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