As anthropologists, we are aware of the importance of maintaining ethical standards in our research and professional relationships. However, it may not always be clear where to find resources for teaching ethics or where to seek feedback on the dilemmas that sometimes arise. The Members Programmatic Advisory and Advocacy Committee (MPAAC) ethics seats are available to help you work through ethical concerns.
Chelsea Horton
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Municipal policymakers have turned Eskisehir into a vision of the model European-like city focused on waterfront restructuring projects. But not everyone has gained from their restructuring program.
What can we learn from the individuals who embody the diversity that banks and other corporations now seek?
Along with his family and friends, the community of anthropologists mourns the passing of Marshall D. Sahlins, considered by many at the time of his death as the world’s most distinguished anthropologist. He died on April 5, 2021, at the age of 90.
The 2021 AAA Annual Meeting theme is a call to reimagine anthropology to meet the demands of the present moment.
In her wide-ranging career, Shirley Gorenstein was a Mesoamerican archaeologist, who, after a decade as a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, founded a public archaeology program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), in Troy, New York, and later was founding chair of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at RPI.
Mutale Chileshe, the unit head for society in medicine at Zambia’s Copperbelt University School of Medicine, made a powerful impact as an anthropologist teaching within a medical school.
Jorge A. Flores-Ochoa, professor emeritus of the San Antonio Abad National University of Cuzco, Peru, passed away from complications of COVID-19 at the age of 85 on August 20, 2020, in the Imperial City of the Incas where he was born and lived his entire life.
To celebrate the creepy time of year, this fall Anthropology News is turning a spooky eye to spectral apparitions and things that go bump in the night. What can anthropology tell us about ghosts and hauntings of all kinds in all places: ghosts ritual and metaphorical, economic and political, long-experienced and recently imagined?
Breath is a powerful material and spiritual force, a point not only of harm but also recovery. It can show us how Black people experience multiple convergences of racial violence, health and environmental hazards, socioeconomic precarity, and disaster through time and space.
Virtual meetings and webinars are often touted as a way for graduate students to extend their professional connections during the pandemic. But they can be an alienating experience.
Despite the challenges presented in the last year, SUNTA maintained momentum as it awarded prizes, changed leadership, and led committees on public space research.
Change is the rule, not the exception. The events of the last year make it imperative that we develop the capacity to anticipate change.
Like most things these days, this year’s Anthropology Day celebration pivoted to a virtual experience. Your enthusiasm and dedication for the discipline proved essential to executing a one-of-a-kind Anthropology Day.
As our community learns more about accessible practices, the more we will be able to share our work with a wider audience to help them more easily include disabled people and people with access needs.
Opening our teaching to risk, horizontal interactions, UnEssays, and ungrading offers ways to truly cultivate students’ learning needs, curiosity, and responsibility—in line with what anthropologists report from learning throughout the world.
Participating in and delivering training sessions has helped me to address client problems and create future opportunities for my business.
An embodied intergenerational pedagogy sheds light on the possibilities of bringing together diverse LGBTQ+ cohorts to strengthen our sense of value and inclusion within a history, lineage, and community.
In a bid to counter disinformation surrounding the peace process, the Colombian government embarked on an ambitious public education campaign. But their rational approach was powerless in the context of a polarizing referendum.
A course about COVID-19 innovates pedagogy to guide students in conceptualizing the pandemic and collaborating to address complex situations.
A student and teacher reflect on Leith Mullings’s impact on their work and what it means to engage in student–teacher practices as Black/queer folks in the classroom.
A new directory for underrepresented scholars aims to promote diversity and inclusion through social networking and mentorship, and by challenging memory biases.
The Association for Feminist Anthropology welcomes feminist anthropologists to join us for cowriting in our newly launched initiative AFA Writes.
Post-traumatic stress disorder fails to account for the psychosocial issues that arise in the wake of peace. We need nonpathological frameworks to give FARC ex-combatants the support they need.
Long-standing interlocutors tell us about how the pandemic has affected local cultural practices and community life.
The landscape of Islam within China has been changing rapidly during the pandemic. Ethnographic fieldwork can map these erasures and disappearances in everyday life.