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My Circus Journey
An old Tidy Cats container sits on the floor in front of the full-length mirrors. It’s no longer filled with what’s advertised but rather…
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Ethnography Photography of the Wild West [PHOTOBLOG]
Check out this gallery of photographs by photojournalist Timothy O’Sullivan, who documented the interactions among settlers and Native Americans in the Old West. O’Sullivan’s…
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Cultural Exchange through the Movies (LINK)
Americans may feel privileged to have such access to films and television. Indeed, we’ve reached (perhaps even surpassed) a saturation point in entertainment media.…
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Teatro de los Muertos: New Play!
This has been completed for some time, but Teatro de los Muertos, the anthology of plays about humans’ encounters with death and the deceased,…
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Documentary to Shoot this Fall (ABIBS Research Update)
Great news! I have navigated the maze that is IRB paperwork, and got approved! I will begin my documentary project (stage 2 of ABIBS—Anthropologically…
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Bullying Paper Presented at Conference (ABIBS Research Update)
Today I presented my semiotic content analysis of news articles on bullying for my Media Anthropology class last fall, at the 9th Annual Conference…
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Public and Visual Anthropology (Research Update)
Snapshots of upcoming guest lecture for a section of the Sex Roles in Cross-Cultural Comparison course at the University of Florida: The problems with…
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My Article on the Anthropology of (and via) Social Media…
…Published in UF’s graduate student newsletter The Grad Cannon! Check it out.
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In Defense of the Social Science Majors
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the worth of anthropology in the education system and job market. First, let me just say…
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The Impossible: How Important Is Ethnicity in “True Story” Films? (LINK)
The Oscar-nominated The Impossible has received a lot of flak for casting white British actors in the story of a Spanish family who experienced…