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...Sunday, though, the mood was euphoric. "It's been great fun," said Mather George, an anthropologist from San Francisco. "I missed the dykes on bikes, the naked people and the music, but I guess they'll get there!" There was much back-slapping and an ecstatic sense of accomplishment. "Delhi has come out and spoken about the kind of people we want to be," said Bhan. "This is not just about queer rights, it's about women's rights, about Dalits, about justice for everyone." But the enthusiasm wasn't shared by the passersby, many of whom looked on perplexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay Pride Delhi-Style | 6/29/2008 | See Source »

...rhetoric of religion, subjects which are inherently interdisciplinary and transnational.To rebuke Hist and Lit too severely would be unfair, however. The program is largely dependent upon departmental course offerings, and “transnationalism” as a concept has not been adequately defined. In the words of anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, “No idiom has yet emerged to capture the collective interests of many groups in translocal solidarities, cross-border mobilizations, and postnational identities.” Ethnic or postcolonial studies—the two closest versions available today—examine only partially the variety of ways...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: A Whole New World | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Hammonds succeeds anthropologist David R. Pilbeam, who served in an interim capacity for the year after the retirement of Benedict H. Gross ’71, a professor of mathematics...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Portrait: Evelynn M. Hammonds | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

Today's younger generation is under attack from an unlikely source: news it can't adequately process. According to an international study released Monday, people aged 18 to 34 are bombarded by news, facts and updates to the point where they now suffer from "newstritional disorder," according to anthropologist Robbie Blinkoff, who headed the study. Symptoms can include a diminished attention span, news fatigue, distraction, and even agitation, which can affect how people communicate in their personal and organizational relationships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bite-Sized Media Future | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...cycle that makes sure you have to be unhappy about how you look, no matter how you look to begin with.” “You have to not feel good about yourself in order to be a good consumer,” Shames said. Becker, an anthropologist, found that the Fijian populace—where women were traditionally very comfortable with varying body images—was radically changed within three years by the introduction of television. (Fiji was one of the last places on Earth to receive television access.) The community began to obsess over dieting...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists Discuss Race and Beauty | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

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