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Anthropology Today
Published on behalf of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Edited by:
Gustaaf Houtman
Anthropology Today is a bimonthly publication which aims to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues, while reflecting the breadth of interests within the discipline of anthropology. It is also committed to promoting debate at the interface between anthropology and areas of applied knowledge such as education, medicine, development etc. as well as that between anthropology and other academic disciplines. Anthropology Today encourages submissions on a wide range of topics, consistent with these aims. Anthropology Today is an international journal both in the scope of issues it covers and in the sources it draws from.
TopNews and Announcements
ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY is pleased to announce two online pilot correspondence facilities. For the full range of the options, please visit: http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate
Read the Interview with Akbar Ahmed "Swat in the eye of the storm", freely available online.
Message from the Editor, Gustaaf Houtman:
At Anthropology Today we are initiating 'virtual' issues that draw contributions from the past into conveniently accessible themed threads across issues. Papers are selected from the period 2000-present, based on the content available online. The virtual issues will hopefully help our readers navigate more easily.
What better first virtual issue than one grappling with the event that has changed the world most in recent years, namely the implications of 'the war on terror' in the wake of 11 September 2001. This issue contains a selection of past contributions - articles, editorials, narratives, letters, news items - that, taken together, reveal some of the dilemmas anthropologists face in navigating today's world, ranging across: the Pentagon Human Terrain initiative, the FM 3-24 Counter-Insurgency manual, MK-ULTRA and the issue of unwitting input by anthropologists into interrogation manuals (and hence torture), the issue of spying and ESRC-funded research into Counter-Radicalization programme, invention of terrorists in Algeria, Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program (PRISP), spying, Islamophobia, lessons we may learn from WW II, and, generally, reactions to the wars that have been unleashed in the aftermath.
Click here to see the virtual issue.
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Anthropology Index Online
The Anthropology Index Online (AIO) is an online bibliographic database of journal articles covering many subfields of archaeology, linguistics, world arts, social and physical anthropology. The Index covers material published in English and in more than 30 other world languages. It is regularly updated, and can help you find material published recently. Results can be emailed to you. Access is via http://aio.anthropology.org.uk, where conditions of use are also found. Use is currently free to individuals. Institutions (except those in developing countries) are charged an annual subscription.
The AIO is published by the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, and is based on holdings of the Anthropology Library in the Centre for Anthropology, British Museum.
GCE A-Level Qualification in Anthropology
The Royal Anthropological Institute and AQA Awarding Body are pleased to announce that they will work together in 2008 to develop an A-Level qualification in anthropology. For more information, please click here.
Members of the Royal Anthropological Institute get 25% discount on Blackwell publications ordered through Blackwell. For an order form, click here.
TopHighlights
Riots in France and Silent Anthropologists
Didier Fassin
Katrina: The Disaster and Its Doubles
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Why Medical Anthropology Matters
Cecil Helman
Reconsidering Stereotypes: Anthropological Reflections on the Jilbab Controversy
Emma Tarlo
America the Ambivalent: Quietly Selling Anthropology to the CIA
David H Price
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