New CSUF class educates students about the plight of the great apes From The Daily Titan The Anthropology Department and the part-time anthropology professor will offer "Great Ape Conservation" this spring semester. "Everybody's got to wake up because we're losing animals at such a rapid rate, it's just incredible," Rosen said. Rosen first learned of primates' adverse conditions when the anthropologist took a trip to Africa 20 years ago. The Anthropology Department does offer a few courses that address primates - Rosen's primate behavior class being one of them.

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Dance performance surprises class From SIU Daily Egyptian The sixth grade students of Giant City Elementary School came to the class and performed one traditional Mexican folklore dance and one traditional Puerto Rican dance. "She said we were going to have a guest speaker today," said Danielle Rios, a sophomore from Chicago studying administration of justice. Susan McMeen, literature arts teacher at Giant City Elementary School, said the students have been studying Mexican culture while reading a Hispanic novel called Esperanza Rising.

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The Narrative of Imperialism: Revisiting the Ugly American ... From openanthropology.wordpress.com "Think about it this way, wouldn't (it) have been nice if the U.S. military knew that an Arab's primary source of pride and power was the home and family, and that `kicking in doors' was an afront (sic) to their honor?" I might agree on a great many issues, I have no problem in saying that both wars are imperialist wars of aggression and occupation of two countries that have never attacked the United States, and that of course did not invite the presence of American troops. Following the...

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Secrecy and Anthropology From openanthropology.wordpress.com With debate over the role of anthropologists in aiding the military machine a theme threading through their annual meeting, scholars voted Friday to demand that the American Anthropological Association reinstate strict language from its 1971 code of ethics prohibiting secret research. AAA executive board, stood up to explain why he had opposed the board's recent statement against the Human Terrain System, a project in which anthropologists work as contractors for the U.S. military in war...

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A plea for more anthropology of ideology From www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/ I've been pondering Daniel Davies's attempted takedown of Milton Friedman, or for that matter Jon Chait's book on supply side economics, and so I slip beneath the fold... Davies presents Friedman as a shill for the Republican Party; I'd like to know how many (public or non-public) conversations he has had with Friedman about the topic of the Republican Party. Yet he writes with a tone of certitude: "it's clearly not intellectual honesty that makes American liberals act pretend that Milton...

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