Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

During a brief visit to Iraq in the heat of summer 2023, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared , “The era of global boiling has indeed begun.” When temperatures rise above 50°C, the government grants public holidays. Credit: Murtaja Lateef Souk al-Shorja, Baghdad’s oldest market, summer 2023.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. Many older activists today involved in US Latin America solidarity were trained in techniques and tactics during this movement.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In his role as the head of state and government, President Jokowi transcends the identity of a mere political figure or official; he becomes a personification of the nation itself. Since Indonesia’s Independence in 1945, Pancasila has been used as a tool to legitimize the ruling government and curb the opposition.

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JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

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Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2024

While Israeli media boasted the images depict “Hamas terrorists surrendering in Gaza,” Palestinian and international organizations reacted with horror over the flagrant human rights abuses. Even the United States government, Israel’s main ally and a relentless weapons provider, expressed concern. This is not far from reality.

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