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The Trauma of Helping Asylum-Seekers

U.S. asylum policies inflict deep pain, not only on those facing deportation but also on those who do the legal aid work to help them stay.

Article by Cornell Anthro Grad Student Erin Routon.  

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The “woman question” as symptomatic of imperialism

I want to bring the arguments of Farris and Scott into conversation with two other recent publications in order to highlight another set of points about geopolitics in relation to political and sexual forms.

Professor Lucinda Ramberg’s essay...

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In their important new books, Sara Farris and Joan Wallach Scott examine how and why gender equality has become the basis for claims that Europe and North America are distinct from—and superior to—the rest of the world, and especially the Islamic world. In In the Name of Women’s Rights (Duke Univers

An essay by Professor Lucinda Ramberg is part of this discussion.

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Col(Lab) on Food, Risk and Privilege

by Annie Sheng, Cornell University We experience the world and our food with all our senses, so why not get tactile as we discuss risk and privilege in relation to food? Princeton University’s Col(…

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Residences, Rentals and Redolent Delectables: Women entrepreneurs and the Japanese baking industry

By Annie Sheng, Cornell University In one baking school in Yokohama, I wait as my bread dough rises. The instructor serves me mochi (pounded rice cake) that she had placed atop an electric furnace …

Blog post by Anthropology PhD Candidate Annie Sheng.

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Hayden S. Kantor, Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Anthropology, published this article in American Anthropologist

"Building Beyond the Bypass Road: Urban Migration, Ritual Eating, and the Fate of the Joint Family in Patna, India"

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aman.12972

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Cornell Department of Anthropology

Spring 2018 Colloquium Series

Stacey Langwick

Department of Anthropology at Cornell                                         

Toxicity and Healing: An Emergent Politics of Habitability in Tanzania

Friday, March 23

3 pm in 215 McGraw Hall

Free and open to the public.

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Cornell University, Department of Anthropology

Spring 2018 Colloquium Series

Matthew Liebmann

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University                                                                                      

Pueblo People, Franciscan Missionaries, and the Arrival of the “Refuse Wind”: Colonialism, Disease, and Demography in the Southwest U.S. 1540-1700

Debates regarding the magnitude, tempo, and ecological effects of Native American population decline between 1492-1900 constitute some of the most contentious issues in American Indian history. Was depopulation rapid and catastrophic, with effects extensive enough to change even the earth’s atmosphere? Or was this decline more moderate, with numbers of Native Americans waning slowly after European colonization? The results of recent collaborative research among archaeologists, dendrochronologists, and tribal members from the Pueblo of Jemez in northern New Mexico present unanticipated results, with consequences that extend beyond the borders of the American Southwest to anthropological studies of colonialism more generally.

Friday, March 9 @ 3 pm in 165 McGraw Hall

Co-Sponsored by American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program; and Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies.

Free and open to the public.

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Infant skull binding shaped identity, inequality in ancient Andes

The idea of binding and reshaping a baby’s head may make today’s parents cringe, but for families in the Andes between 1100-1450 AD, cranial modification was all the rage. Like Chinese foot binding, the practice may have been a marker of group identity. Its period of popularity in the area that is now Peru, before the expansion of the Inka empire, was marked by political upheaval, ecological stress and the emergence of new cultural practices.

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http://events.cornell.edu/event/anthropology_colluquium_gabrielle_tayac_3671

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