Lecture series focuses on writing to enhance healing From Dallas Morning News Healing through writing will be explored in "Healing Fictions: How Stories Restore Us," the Dallas Institute's upcoming three-part lecture series. The assistant professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University has worked with American Indians, particularly the Pima, and has written about their stories of illness and healing, says Larry Allums, executive director of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, a nonprofit educational center for creative and intellectual exchange....

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Greece: Eurovision conference to be streamed live From esctoday.com Singing Europe: Spectacle and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest, is organized by the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece) in association with the The Society of Ethnomusicology (Special Interest Group for European Music), under the auspices of the Benaki Museum (Athens, Greece).

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Thomas Barnett, the military, and anthropology From www.ethnography.com One of the more memorable points he makes is with regard to the invasion phase of a military operation where he recommends using single pumped up nineteen year olds, and the post-invasion phase where he recommends careful and thoughtful 40 year olds with families. Although Barnett is implicitly hinting at anthropology when he discusses the role that the military should play in post-conflict situations plays, he never utters the word. But why not go the next step, and conclude that...

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To go to war or not to go to war From Daily 49er The Cal State Long Beach Anthropology Department held a debate last Wednesday in the Karl Anatol Center that had Long Beach community members, CSULB students, staff and faculty participate in what is one of the larger current debates with the war in Iraq. The debate, called "Anthropology Goes to War," had panelists discussing the Human Terrain System (HTS) where anthropologists, who study cultures and social traditions of humans, are hired under the military as contractors to lead Human...

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Anthropology professor Aubrey Williams dead at 83 From Diamondback Online Williams Jr., an anthropology professor who urged students to challenge authority and became known as an outspoken civil rights and anti-war activist, died Saturday of complications related to pneumonia at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park. Anthropology professor William Stewart, who had known Williams for almost 35 years, described him as a "maverick" and the "spiritual faculty father of anti-war sentiments," and noted he was never one to stand down. Junior American studies and...

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