I made a somewhat off-hand comment one of Ryan’s posts about graduate education on Savage Minds.Org some time ago. I warned graduate students about “fetishizing” various types of grant sources like NSF, NIMH, Fulbright, and the various others sources of grad student funding which students compete to get. This initially got me a deserved sharp rebuke from Ryan. After all, who was I as a fully tenured, overpaid, and underworked full professor to complain about graduate stipend which (obviously) are few and far between? …
Month: January 2014
The Educated Class in the United States: It still pays to be wealthy!
Here is a really cool graphic describing the advantages of class and wealth in the United States from DegreeQuery.com. It is a good reminder that there is indeed a strong correlation between wealth and advantages in the American education system. It is also very nicely presented!
Tony Waters is czar and editor of Ethnography.com. He came to us from the Sociology department at California State University at Chico where he has been a professor since 1996.
Return of Vigango statues from Denver museum to Kenya
There is a nice article in the New York Times about the repatriation of Kenya’s Vigango funerary statues from a museum in Denver here.
Tony Waters is czar and editor of Ethnography.com. He came to us from the Sociology department at California State University at Chico where he has been a professor since 1996. In 2016 though he suddenly found himself with a new gig at Payap University in northern Thailand where he is on the faculty of the Peace Studies Department.
Troping the Enemy: Culture, Metaphor Programs, and Notional Publics of National Security
By Robert Albro
American University
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) – established in 2006 in the spirit of the Pentagon’s DARPA to sponsor research for groundbreaking technologies to support an “overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries” – is a little-known US agency that social and behavioral scientists (especially sociocultural anthropologists) should pay more attention to. This is because IARPA is notably social scientific in orientation and has been developing concepts in specific ways for use by the intelligence community (IC) that US anthropology in particular is significantly historically responsible for introducing to the social sciences, if in different ways, most obviously: culture, its coherence and the extent of cultural consensus, its relationship to society and to human agency.…