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The Crimson | Fifteen Questions: Arthur M. Kleinman on Caregiving, Field Research in China, and His Love Story

March 14, 2024

Harvard Anthropology Professor Arthur Kleinman was recently featured in The Harvard Crimson's interview series "Fifteen Questions" in which he shares his thoughts on caregiving, field research in China, and his "love story." 

A professor of anthropology of over 40 years, Kleinman studies patient-caregiver relationships in Asia. “I had the personal experience of taking care of my late wife, Joan, for 10 and a half years while she suffered from early onset Alzheimer’s disease and died from it,” he says. “That experience was transformative for me. I...

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ARCE and Friends of the American Cemetery Commemorate George Reisner | Peter Manuelian

March 5, 2024

Recently featured by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), Harvard Anthropology Professor Peter Manuelian continues his work in commemorating George Reisner (1867-1942), American Archaeologist and Egyptologist.

Few, in the field of Egyptology, would claim not to know George Andrew Reisner.

A celebrated American archaeologist and Egyptologist, Reisner’s...

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Voices from the Front Lines: The Pandemic and the Humanities | Ryan Christopher Jones

March 1, 2024

We're pleased to share that a recent publication from the UC Medical Humanities Press Book Series features an essay by Ryan Christopher Jones, a current Harvard Anthropology PhD student.

Jones's essay, titled "On Witnessing: Photojournalism and Visualized Trauma Photographs from the sacrament of last rites in Boston hospitals, Spring 2020," delves into early COVID coverage and the moral wrangling that comes with the witnessing of suffering for public audiences.

Jones shares:

This essay recounts my experience of documenting Covid’s initial...

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Think Global Health: Paul Farmer and the Audacity of Accompaniment | Arthur Kleinman

February 22, 2024

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is glad to share a new article written by Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, and published by Think Global Health. The piece, titled "Paul Farmer and the Audacity of Accompaniment: Reflecting on Paul Farmer's extraordinary legacy," delves into the life and work of the late Kolokotrones University Professor...

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Public Seminar: Silencing Teachers in Yemen | Abdulgaleel Ahmed

January 29, 2024

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share a recent publication from Public Seminar written by Harvard Fellow in Anthropology Abdulgaleel Ahmed titled "Silencing Teachers in Yemen: How the Houthi threaten the future of a civil society."

“After nine years of war, Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” a United Nations report asserted...

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HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory: From busting cults to breeding cults | Gabriella Coleman

January 11, 2024

The Department of Anthropology is pleased to share a new publication from The University of Chicago Press Journals and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory which features a talk by Gabriella Coleman, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Harvard, titled “From busting cults to breeding cults: Anonymous h/acktivism vs. the (a)nonymous far right and QAnon.”

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Annals of Internal Medicine: Suicide in U.S. Indigenous Persons | Joseph P. Gone

December 20, 2023

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that Annals of Internal Medicine has published a new editorial by Professor of Anthropology Joseph P. Gone entitled "Suicide in U.S. Indigenous Persons: Reframing the Etiology and Solutions."

Indigenous persons in the United States are distinguished by who we count as kin. Indeed, our lives are organized by...

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