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Around the Web: Anthropology, culture, blogs, news, and internet weirdness baked fresh each Monday at Savage Minds. General-ly speaking: This fall I’m teaching General Anthropology for the first time in like five years, so I’m on the lookout for new ideas to spice up a course that, in all likelihood, is the only exposure most [...]

Despite the popularity of the Indiana Jones franchise, we somehow never got a whole genre out of them: we have racks and racks of kung fu and science fiction flicks, but no ‘archaeology adventures’ rack. There are films that draw on Indiana Jones imagery or themes (I’d actually put the last Indiana Jones movie in [...]

I mentioned back in February that I was excited to be attending this year’s IUAES conference in Kunming, China. I even arranged a Savage Minds party for the event, which had 10 confirmed guests and 22 “maybes.” So I’m very sorry to hear that the Chinese government has decided that anthropologists pose a security threat [...]

Wherever your sympathies lie, it seems important to understand how Western media coverage of the violence in Tibet is being perceived from within China. There have been a number of blog posts about this, and Ethan Zuckerman has already done a great job of rounding them up. I especially liked Rebecca MacKinnon’s piece. She used [...]

For five decades, the People’s Republic of China has been proclaiming the death of the Tibetan resistance. In the 1950-60s, they discursively denied the existence of the Tibetan resistance army by referring to them as “high class separatists” and “rebel bandits.” Since then, they have attempted to curb any resistance by immediately putting down protests [...]

By way of kicking off our “occasional contributors” project, Carole McGranahan has agreed to write something about Tibet for us, which she will shortly post. Carole McGranahan is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado. She received a Ph.D. in anthropology and history from the University of Michigan in 2001. Currently, she [...]

The Guardian has two comments, one by Vaclav Havel and one by Timothy Garton Ash on the situation in Tibet. Havel’s, signed with others, is a strong indictment of inaction, and both essentially call for the same thing: allowing the media in, opening dialogue with the Dalai Lama, and otherwise moving towards a path of [...]

We at Savage Minds have been thinking for some time about how to increase dialogue on the site. So far we have done a marvelous job of creating a civil society for anthropology, and have had some great guest bloggers and — of course — lively and informative commenters. However we’ve also been thinking about [...]

The recent violence in Tibet has been poorly covered by American media, and even more poorly analyzed, if at all. In fact, the only analysis I’ve seen so far is at Boing Boing, where they pay attention to things like this if it involves China blocking traffic to Boing Boing (which is actually probably a [...]

Rex’s “recent post”:http://savageminds.org/2006/05/02/seminal-juxtapositions/ has led to an interesting discussion in the comments section about the ways in which teachers and professors expose students to cultural practices that deeply threaten their assumptions about morality, propriety and the nature of life itself. The Sambian practice of male initiation through insemination via fellatio is used as an example [...]

I’m sort of surprised it’s taken SM this long to have a full-on rant about the shortcomings of sociobiology/ evolutionary psychology/ evolutionary biology — perhaps I’m the only person who is habitually irritated by this field, or perhaps we are all so irritated by it that we’d rather just not go there. At any rate [...]