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Cultural anthropologist Barbara Miller offers updates about people, cultures, rights, and change, around the world. Focus on anthropology and more. Casting a critical, but wishfully hopeful, eye on current events. Sharing new research and opportunities
In memoriam: Ruth Krulfeld, long time anthropology professor at George Washington University and women’s rights advocate, dies at 94 gwhatchet.com?p=1236817
August 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In memoriam: Ruth Krulfeld, long time anthropology professor at George Washington University and women’s rights advocate, dies at 94 gwhatchet.com?p=1236817
Unmasking fascism: Edward Said’s pedagogy of wakefulness in an age of educational repression - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/u...
June 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Unmasking fascism: Edward Said’s pedagogy of wakefulness in an age of educational repression - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/u...
The Illegal Attack on Iran - this article argues that Israeli attacks against Iran since 2023 have been illegal CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/13/t...
June 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The Illegal Attack on Iran - this article argues that Israeli attacks against Iran since 2023 have been illegal CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/13/t...
In memoriam: Diane Nelson, professor of anthropology at Duke University. "A member of our department for twenty-one years, she showed us how to hold onto our commitments to social justice as much as she did how to play..." today.duke.edu/2022/04/duke...
June 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In memoriam: Diane Nelson, professor of anthropology at Duke University. "A member of our department for twenty-one years, she showed us how to hold onto our commitments to social justice as much as she did how to play..." today.duke.edu/2022/04/duke...
In fight with Columbia University, Trump threatens to remove its accreditation status thehill.com/homenews/edu...
June 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In fight with Columbia University, Trump threatens to remove its accreditation status thehill.com/homenews/edu...
Book review www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
June 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Book review www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
In memoriam: critical medical anthropologist Merrill Singer
May 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
In memoriam: critical medical anthropologist Merrill Singer
Requiem for May Day: A Diary of Encampment Protest - by Gary Fields, a professor at the University of California at San Diego CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/01/r...
May 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Requiem for May Day: A Diary of Encampment Protest - by Gary Fields, a professor at the University of California at San Diego CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/01/r...
Article on Intersectionality Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology www.mdpi.com/2673-9461/5/...
April 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Article on Intersectionality Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology www.mdpi.com/2673-9461/5/...
Look to Kenya for how climate resilience and energy sustainability can work: nearly half the nation's energy needs are provided by geothermal power.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
April 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Look to Kenya for how climate resilience and energy sustainability can work: nearly half the nation's energy needs are provided by geothermal power.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Wisconsin on our minds
April 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Wisconsin on our minds
Book review -- the author has written a timely book about the Revenge Presidency. I wonder how the author can have kept up with the rapid-fire cruelty, written a book so quickly, and decided when to stop writing and publish about an ongoing horror story! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
March 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Book review -- the author has written a timely book about the Revenge Presidency. I wonder how the author can have kept up with the rapid-fire cruelty, written a book so quickly, and decided when to stop writing and publish about an ongoing horror story! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
The newest museum on the National Mall in DC is in the path of the Trump-Musk wrecking ball, accused of being anti-American because it stands for truth and justice -- core American principles in normal times www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
March 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The newest museum on the National Mall in DC is in the path of the Trump-Musk wrecking ball, accused of being anti-American because it stands for truth and justice -- core American principles in normal times www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Anthropologist David Price on the JFK files: “As a scholar who..has read over 100,000 pages of declassified CIA and FBI FOIA documents...the most interesting documents in this release are short, unredacted memos...with names of CIA and FBI agents, informers...”
www.counterpunch.org/.../the-2025...
www.counterpunch.org/.../the-2025...
March 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Anthropologist David Price on the JFK files: “As a scholar who..has read over 100,000 pages of declassified CIA and FBI FOIA documents...the most interesting documents in this release are short, unredacted memos...with names of CIA and FBI agents, informers...”
www.counterpunch.org/.../the-2025...
www.counterpunch.org/.../the-2025...
Cornell University: 16 peaceful protestors arrested www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/03/11/p...
March 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Cornell University: 16 peaceful protestors arrested www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/03/11/p...
What they say..."good science" is probably a gloss for "privatized science." Can't you just picture this: The X Scientific Research Lab, Fully Funded by US Taxpayers to Protect You From Fake Science. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
March 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What they say..."good science" is probably a gloss for "privatized science." Can't you just picture this: The X Scientific Research Lab, Fully Funded by US Taxpayers to Protect You From Fake Science. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Check it out: my third "Report from across the Border" is now live on my personal Facebook page --yes, I still use FB...:( www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
March 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Check it out: my third "Report from across the Border" is now live on my personal Facebook page --yes, I still use FB...:( www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
USA McCarthyism: new Task Force of the "Department of Justice" (quotation marks signal that US leadership has redefined "Justice" in its Newspeak way; see Orwell 1984) will investigate "anti-semitism" on several campuses to see if "remedial action is required" www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
March 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
USA McCarthyism: new Task Force of the "Department of Justice" (quotation marks signal that US leadership has redefined "Justice" in its Newspeak way; see Orwell 1984) will investigate "anti-semitism" on several campuses to see if "remedial action is required" www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
I've heard three theories about why Musk appears with his son on his shoulders: 1) to demonstrate his warm fatherly qualities 2) to show he's not gay 3) as security because a shooter would be less likely to go for him while carrying a vulnerable child. Others? Thoughts?
February 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I've heard three theories about why Musk appears with his son on his shoulders: 1) to demonstrate his warm fatherly qualities 2) to show he's not gay 3) as security because a shooter would be less likely to go for him while carrying a vulnerable child. Others? Thoughts?
Jan 6 insurrectionists were pardoned, but not forgiven in DC: Mayor Muriel Bowser said “I couldn’t disagree with that act more” and “I further am concerned about what it means to empower people to commit violence in our city again.” wtop.com/dc/2025/01/a...
January 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Jan 6 insurrectionists were pardoned, but not forgiven in DC: Mayor Muriel Bowser said “I couldn’t disagree with that act more” and “I further am concerned about what it means to empower people to commit violence in our city again.” wtop.com/dc/2025/01/a...
US: The National Science Foundation canceled all of its grant review panels this week, as the organization works to align its grantmaking process with new executive orders from the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
January 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
US: The National Science Foundation canceled all of its grant review panels this week, as the organization works to align its grantmaking process with new executive orders from the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Brazil: Teto Verde Favela, a nonprofit, teaches favela residents how to build their own green roofs as a way to beat the heat without overloading electrical grids or spending money on fans and air conditioners
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
January 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Brazil: Teto Verde Favela, a nonprofit, teaches favela residents how to build their own green roofs as a way to beat the heat without overloading electrical grids or spending money on fans and air conditioners
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Progress: Thailand celebrates marriage equality act, first Southeast Asian nation to allow same-sex marriage www.npr.org?refresh=true
January 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Progress: Thailand celebrates marriage equality act, first Southeast Asian nation to allow same-sex marriage www.npr.org?refresh=true
Article of note: Making power visible: Business improvement districts and creative placemaking in Washington, DC . Shows how business improvement districts drove gentrification since the late 1990s. Co-author Aaron Howe is a sociocultural anthropologist www.urbanstudiesonline.com/latest-urban...
December 24, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Article of note: Making power visible: Business improvement districts and creative placemaking in Washington, DC . Shows how business improvement districts drove gentrification since the late 1990s. Co-author Aaron Howe is a sociocultural anthropologist www.urbanstudiesonline.com/latest-urban...
US: Percentage of Christian nationalists by state www.prri.org/research/sup...
November 30, 2024 at 2:43 PM
US: Percentage of Christian nationalists by state www.prri.org/research/sup...