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• A Farewell to Claude Levi-Strauss

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 125
  Claude Lévi-Strauss (Nov. 28, 1908 – Oct 30, 2009) On Oct 30, 2009, Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away. He left quite a legacy in the world of anthropology. Born in Belgium on November 28, 1908, his family moved to France, where he studied at the university on Paris. During the mid-1930s, he taught at the ...
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• Sunday Times Returns to Java to Profile S. Ann Dunham

  
  Duke University Press Log — Authority: 119
   The Sunday Times (London) sent reporter Christine Finn to Kajar, Java in Indonesia to revisit the site of S. Ann Dunhams research there. As you have read before on this blog, Dunham, who died in 1995, was President Barack Obamas mother. An anthropologist, she did her fieldwork on Javanese metal workers in the ...
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• Interview with Writer and Budding Anthropologist Peter Rudiak-Gould

  
  The Mindful Tourist — Authority: 112
  The Mindful Tourist is thrilled to have been able to sit down (virtually) with Peter Rudiak-Gould, author of Surviving Paradise, a memoir we  recently reviewed right here on this site.  We talked with Peter about his new book, his experiences on Ujae, and his travels.  Mindful Tourist: As I mentioned in ...
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• Deconstructing Lévi-Strauss

  
  InfiniteBody — Authority: 130
  Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Two-Part Harmonies by Larry Rohter , The New York Times , November 8, 2009 InfiniteBodyhttp://infinitebody.blogspot.com
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• Verge LA 2009 – Speaker Topics Part V

  
  Dream Awakener — Authority: 496
  With Verge LA right around the corner, I will be posting some of the topics that various speakers will tackle, everyday until the event. The basic theme of this gathering is looking at what it means to be missional in imaginative ways. Verge LA is where the next BIG idea meets UNconference. Check out this Verge LA ...
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• Reading selection for 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Indiana University Press blog — Authority: 125
  Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. To honor this occasion, we offer the following reading selection fromDaphne Berdahls forthcoming book, On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany . In this excerpt, Berdahl discusses how nostalgia for East Germany developed ...
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• 0.185: Terms of Incorporation, Concepts of Domination

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 120
  Phrases such as “ decolonizing anthropology ”* and “ anthropology and the colonial encounter ” have become salient in anthropology especially since they are the titles of two of the better known, most widely quoted books on the subject. What subject? That is what is lacking clarity, because presumably the ...
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• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 106
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
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• In Memory of Claude Lévi-Strauss

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  By Scott Atran Claude Lévi-Strauss, arguably the worlds most famous and influential anthropologist, died on October 30 at the age of 100. This is a lasting memory of my first encounter with him. In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of ...
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• Thinking through Claude Lévi-Strauss

  
  Neuroanthropology — Authority: 495
  Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908-2009 Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the true giants of anthropology, passed away this past week on 30 October, just shy of 101 years old. As Maurice Bloch writes, Lévi-Strauss was ‘the last survivor of these great beasts such as Sartre, Foucault and the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu,’ ...
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• Biblical Anthropology, Part 5

  
  The Naked Bible — Authority: 118
  In my last biblical anthropology post, I posed these three questions. Here they are again with some proposed answers: 1. When nephesh is described as being in sheol, does the term refer to only the inner part, the body, or the totality? It seems that if Sheol refers to the grave, the answer would be ...
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• Four Stone Hearth 80 – Call for Submissions

  
  Middle Savagery — Authority: 108
  Broken Heart, by Phoenix Daily Photo I’m hosting the next Four Stone Hearth on November 18th, please send your submissions to me: clmorgan@gmail.com For this edition, it would be nice to get a lot of photos with captions! I need some inspiration–my camera hasn’t seen much use lately. Four Stone Hearth 79 ...
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• 100 Years – 100 Objects: Zuni Pottery

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 125
  The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 – meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series , our current curators have chosen one hundred ...
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• XYZ

  
  Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog — Authority: 127
   Taking a moment from time to time to examine and attempt to define your intentions in your writing activities produces more questions than answers, which is surely Natures way of reminding you you are still alive.  There were times when, to be sure, you were not alive, bored instead or wallowing not so much in the ...
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• Everyday Nationalism--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 126
  Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India Kalyani Devaki Menon 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4196-9 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Ethnography of Political Violence series This ethnography analyzes the popularity of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India ...
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• Media geopolitics

  
  media/anthropology — Authority: 514
  Still thinking aloud about what a geopolitical anthropology of media may look like, most recently in discussion with a colleague via email. To recap an earlier blog post  on this subject, I’m starting to think about the relationship between geopolitics and media. One idea would be to look at how the major powers ...
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• Orbinski on humanitarianism, dignity, and hope

  
  Musings of a Christian Psychologist — Authority: 122
    Two days ago I had the privilege of meeting and hearing Dr. James Orbinski at the 2009 Frobese Day, an educational conference held at Abington Memorial Hospital each year. Dr. Orbinski is the former head of Medicins Sans Frontiers (Drs without Borders), current head of Dignitas, professor at U. of Toronto, author ...
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• Week in Review: Big Questions Edition

  
  The Emerging Scholars Blog — Authority: 118
  Here’s the top five articles, books, websites, etc., that we’ve been reading or thinking about the past week. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them.  In addition, if you have items you’d like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike . Claude ...
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• Current Anthropology – New Edition, First 50 Years Issue

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 545
  Current Anthropology , December 2009, Volume 50 number 6 is now out, which as will be apparent from the headline, marks no less than 50 years in the field, and there are a number of essays contained therein which reflect on the past, present and future of this publication. Here’s part of editor Mark Alfenferfer’s ...
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