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anthropologyworks

@anthroworks.bsky.social
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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

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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
In memoriam: Ruth Krulfeld, long time anthropology professor at George Washington University and women’s rights advocate, dies at 94 gwhatchet.com?p=1236817
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Unmasking fascism: Edward Said’s pedagogy of wakefulness in an age of educational repression - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/27/u...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
In fight with Columbia University, Trump threatens to remove its accreditation status thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Book review www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
In memoriam: critical medical anthropologist Merrill Singer
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Article on Intersectionality Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology www.mdpi.com/2673-9461/5/...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Wisconsin on our minds
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Cornell University: 16 peaceful protestors arrested www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/03/11/p...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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?...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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?
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Progress: Thailand celebrates marriage equality act, first Southeast Asian nation to allow same-sex marriage www.npr.org?refresh=true
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
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...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
US: Percentage of Christian nationalists by state www.prri.org/research/sup...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
article of note: Gendered Narratives in British Immigration Policy: Forced Marriage Policy and the British South Asian Diaspora [open access] scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/concern/gw_w...
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Thanks for asking!
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
My Bluesky mission is "about people" -- this is "about people" right?
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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
From politics to panache: the best of Africa Foto Fair – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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