Anthropology roundup: Malinowski’s Legacy in the Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea… Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss…

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Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss – melancholyanthropology
The Guardian (blog)

Perhaps you are a lover of travellers’ tales. If the voice of this French anthropologist conveys to you nothing more than academic curmudgeonliness, let’s leave it there. But isn’t it a kind of fastidiousness that seems to belong to a vanished .

 

Malinowski’s Legacy: One Hundred Years of Anthropology in the Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Rex

(Last week a major international conference was held in Alotau, the capital of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, where Bronislaw Malinowski did the research on kula that resulted in Argonauts of the Western Pacific (pdf of the conference program). The conference organizer Sergio Jarillo de la Torre was kind enough to write up this report of what happened, which I post here – R) 

Ethnographic Field Data 1: Should I Share my Fieldnotes?

 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Celia Emmelhainz

[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Celia Emmelhainz.]

“This will be your office,” Dr. Bernson* says, unlocking the storage room near her office.

Tall wooden shelves frame rows of ethnography, gender studies, and area studies book, dog-eared dictionaries of minority languages, and obscure books she picked up in the field. A row of file cabinets faces the bookshelves, and in the back: two old computers for the graduate students.

Toward Living with (not Under) Anthropology, Pt. 1

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Matt Thompson

Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Takami Delisle. Tak currently works as a medical interpreter for Japanese patients and helps run an organization for anthropology students of color. You can find her on Twitter @tsd1888 and she also has her own blog. If you’re interested, please contact her.

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Toward Living with (not Under) Anthropology

by Takami Delisle

An anthropologist’s lasting legacy at MIT
MIT News
“She thinks ethically and acts ethically at every scale, from the global geopolitical to the very interpersonal politics of the department,” says Stefan Helmreich, the Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology and current program head. “She …

Scientists find evidence of prehistoric massacre in Europe

Scientists say they have found rare evidence of a prehistoric massacre in Europe after discovering a 7,000-year-old mass grave with skeletal remains from some of the continent’s first farmers bearing terrible wounds.

Romantic kissing not found across all cultures
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Garcia said he and his teammates, University of NevadaAnthropology Department Chair William Jankowiak and graduate assistant Shelly Volsche, set out last year to find evidence to support or contradict long-established claims that romantic kissing was …
Researchers find romantic kissing is not the norm in most culturesIU Bloomington Newsroom

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