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 ISSN 0268-540X
Incorporating RAIN (issn 0307-6776; as from vol. 15: 0268 540X).
Anthropology Today is a bimonthly publication which aims to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues, while reflecting the breadth of interests within the discipline of anthropology.
It is also committed to promoting debate at the interface between anthropology and areas of applied knowledge such as education, medicine, development etc. as well as that between anthropology and other academic disciplines.
The journal is international both in the scope of issues it covers and in the sources it draws from.
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Museum Anthropology
In 2009, the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, Canada, closed for six months for expansion and extensive renovations to the original building, designed by world-renowned architect Arthur Erickson. This series of photographs by David Campion documents the emergence of Haida artist Bill Reid’s great sculpture The Raven and the First Men from the plywood shelter custom built around the work to protect it during construction. This piece is recognized around the world as a sculptural icon, and draws thousands of visitors to MOA each year. It is carved out of yellow cedar, and tells the story of the origin of the Haida people. Like the Raven, the museum itself is newly emerging from a period of renewal – both physical and philosophical – and now stands poised to meet the challenges of museology in the 21st century.
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Fieldwork and Technology
The images on the front and back covers illustrate two of several reflections in this issue on the impacts of technology on the world studied by anthropologists. On the front cover, an internet cafe is one of the first sights to greet visitors to Dhunche, once a ‘remote’ area in northern Nepal. On the back cover, a youth tries out a telescope during the commemoration of the confirmation of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity at Roça Sundy, Príncipe, where Arthur Eddington observed a total solar eclipse.
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Ethnographic Documentaries and Public Anthropology
Ethnographic documentaries are a shop window for anthropology. These cover photos represent three well received films shown at the most recent RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film held at Leeds Metropolitan University in July. The festival is a biennial event at which visual anthropologists, filmmakers and documentarists mingle.
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Heritage Protection
Created in the aftermath of World War II, UNESCO was mandated to engage in a worldwide educational campaign aimed at establishing the conditions for lasting peace. This involved working out and disseminating a new world view based on a revised conception of human diversity. The founders of UNESCO argued that prejudice relating to human diversity is the main cause of war, and hoped that a radical modification of the existing vision of that diversity would help to guarantee of peace.
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Ethnicity, Race and the Limits of Human Identity
The front and back covers show artist Sean Weisgerber's interpretation of the theme of this issue, the problem of classifying human identity in a world of fusion and change. Articles address biometric security, the use of the concept of ‘tribe' in US army counter-insurgency programmes, and human identity as constituted in and through debate among Afghani refugees recently returned from northern Pakistan to Afghanistan.
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