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be engaged with recent developments in the world at large, and
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Sharika Thiranagama
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Lynn Meskell
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Carol Delaney
ANTHROPOLOGY NEWS
Jamie Jones Received National Science Foundation Award for his
Hadza Research Project
hadza.pngAssociate Professor Jamie Holland Jones was recently
awarded a National Science Foundation grant for his research in
the causes and consequences of Hadza matrilocality social
structure. The goal of this project is to investigate in the
individual and family-level decisions that lead to emergent
patterns of kin coresidence among Hadza hunter-gatherers of
northern Tanzania. Comparative work in cultural anthropology has
shown that marriage, kinship systems, and marital residence
patterns vary according the ecological conditions. The
investigators propose theoretically grounded hypotheses about
the formation of residential groups that can be tested by
examining variation between and within Hadza residential groups.
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The Anthropology of Tobacco
cigarette.png Anthropologists have long studied tobacco, what is
today the world’s greatest cause of preventable death. Their
publications have garnered modest attention, however, even as
the academy is increasingly interested in global health,
transnational commoditization, pharmaceuticals, and the politics
of life and death. In "Tobacco", published in the June 29, 2011
issue of Annual Review of Anthropology, Associate Professor
Matthew Kohrman and his colleague Peter Benson discuss why
anthropology has not more ardently engaged the study of tobacco
and its toxicity – including exposing for the first time how
anthropologists have previously collaborated with the tobacco
industry -- and identify areas for further research.
https://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/
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