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The politics of women’s clothing
By Barbara Miller The Economist reports that Sudan’s criminal law forbids “indecent clothing in public” with little in the way of further details. Sudanese journalist Lubna al-Hussein was recently...
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Heavy metal and mental health
by Barbara Miller Metal music fans in France are no more anxious or depressed than the general population, in fact, they are somewhat less so. Fewer than 5 percent of the 333 fans in a recent study...
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France deports Roma
The Roma camps in France are not great places to live, but being summarily deported from them is even worse. Dozens of media sources around the world reported on the deportation. I am proud that my...
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Anthro in the news 1/21/13
• Revenge against French fueling conflict in Mali and Algeria Mali. Source: CIA Factbook. The contested region is in the north. An article in The Star (Toronto) about how Mali’s conflict spilled across...
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Anthro in the news1/12/15
On France as a target for jihad Time Magazine published an article by cultural anthropologist John Bowen of Washington University in which he describes three factors contributing to France as a target...
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Anthro in the news 4/27/15
Prisoners who paint murals The Huffington Post republished an article originally in French on HuffPo France about a project of artist David Mesguich in which he is working with prisoners to paint...
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Anthro in the news 5/18/15
Disenchantment and British politics Emma Crewe, social anthropologist and research associate at SOAS, the University of London, published an op-ed in the Times Higher Education (U.K.) on how to...
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anthro in the news 1/4/16
Sidney Mintz: Founder of the anthropology of food Cultural anthropologist Sarah Hill, associate professor at Western Michigan University, published an article in the Boston Review detailing the work...
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