Department of Anthropology

Cornell Anthropology Graduate Student wins 2011 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology student writing prize

Chika Watanabe, Cornell University Anthropology PhD Candidate, won the 2011 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) student paper prize for her essay "Return and Repetition in Development Work: Discipline as a Temporal Modality in a Religiously-based Japanese NGO."

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IU Press publishes Stacey Langwick's "Bodies, Politics, and African Healing"

This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria.

For more on the book, visit Indiana University Press.

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Anthropology Graduate Student Association - Fall Events

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John Henderson featured on Academic Minute

Professor John Henderson's work on the origin of chocolate was featured on the September 29 Academic Minute, broadcast on WAMC radio and featured online on Inside Higher Ed.  In it, Professor Henderson traces the use of cacao from an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented pulp of the fruit to chocolate as we know it made from the beans.

Listen to Professor Henderson's history here.

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Cornell Anthro Graduate Student wins the 2011 Condon Prize

We are excited to announce that Saiba Varma a graduate student in our Cultural Anthropology program, has won the 2011 Condon Prize from the Society for Psychological Anthropology for her paper "The Silent Bio In Psychosocial Counselors as Psychiatrists in India Administered Kashmir." Saiba will receive the Condon prize at the Business Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology on Friday, November 18, 2011. Sabia's paper will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Ethos.

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Call for Papers: 2011/12 Anthropology Graduate Student Association Research and Writing Workshop

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Prof. Stacey Langwick's book reading covered by Corell Daily Sun

On February 18th, Prof. Stacey Langwick read from her book Bodies, Politics and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania at Buffalo Street Books in downtown Ithaca. The Cornell Sun filed this report on the event.

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