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Upcoming Anthropology Events

For a listing of this all of this semester's coming events, please visit our events page.

Anthropology News

Professor Hiro Miyazaki's latest book examines the inner workings of the world of finance: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/06/anthropologist-studies-unusual-tribe-derivatives-traders

Fajans examines food, comfort, connection in Brazil

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Anthropology in the Real World
A PUBLIC FORUM
Thursday, January 24, 2013,
7-9 pm, 215 McGraw Hall

Anthropology’s ‘Jewish problem’ examined

Many of America’s early ethnographers were Jewish—including Franz Boas, often called the “father” of American anthropology—yet Jewish culture was and has remained largely a marginal subject in anthropology, said Jonathan Boyarin on November 26 at the A.D. White House. Boyarin examined aspects of anthropology’s “Jewish problem” in a talk entitled “Trickster's Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology,” sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program. Full Story

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