News and Events
Upcoming Anthropology Events
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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
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
