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Religion, Spirituality, and Inequality in Communities of Color - Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS Religion, Spirituality, and Inequality in Communities of ColorA Special issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color Guest EditorsAssata Zerai, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSandra Weissinger, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Recent public discourse on women’s reproductive rights and abortion, full-time homemakers and working mothers, and LGBTQ partnership and marriage, has highlighted the pervasive role and power of organized religion and spirituality in…See More
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Ethnography

Discussing ethnography and ethnographic disciplines in general, whether or not they are exclusive to anthropology as a discipline. Folkloristics, market research, ethnomusicology, microsociology, microeconomics, microhistory...
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Teaching Anthropology

A group for discussing and exploring that other thing that many of us do with anthropology: teaching. Tactics, strategies, pedagogical theory -- anything related to teaching anthropology is fair game.See More
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Physical and Forensic Anthropology

This group allows for discussion of the various issues that the Physical and Forensic Anthropology address.
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Arctic & Northern Cultures

Regarding the study of indigenous and other cultures in northern and arctic regions.
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Anthropology of Food

I guess the title is self-explanatory... Foodies unite!
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Photoethnography

A forum to discuss the role of photography in and for anthropology
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Anthropology of Afghanistan

To Discuss the dynamics of culture, society, and history in Afghanistan.
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After the disaster (but before Krugman endorsed Klein's shock doctrine)

Nate Roberts posted a link on Facebook to a recent piece by Paul Krugman essentially saying that he once thought Naomi Klein's views on neoliberalism were extreme, but now he thinks she could be right. This led me to look up an Anthropology Today editorial I published in…

Natural Language and the Social Sciences

For my current project, which automates an approach to understanding decision making processes of elites, first developed by Robert Axelrod in the 1970s, I make use of two newly developed computational linguistic tools (see my github profile).

Rather than discussing the specifics of my current project, which you can read about here, I…

An anthropologist in all but name?

Reading this review of a new book about the "anti-utopian reformer with keen eye for detail" Albert Hirschman, I found myself thinking of OAC founder Keith Hart. I wonder what Hart will think of being seen as resembling Hirschman, in a complimentary way.

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