57. Anthropology at the Universities.

Medical anthropology at home.

Cognition at the Universities of

The Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition was established by the German Science Foundation (DFG) at the Universities of Bremen and Freiburg in January 2003. 13 Research projects pursue interdisciplinary research on intelligent spatial information processing. This article introduces the research field of spatial cognition and reports on aspects from cognitive psy...

Anthropology at the Washington Meeting For

THE annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association was held in the United States National Museum, Washington, D. C., December 27-30, 1911, in affiliation with Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Folk-Lore Society. The attendance was good and the program exceptionally long and interesting. The most important features were the two symp...

American universities at risk.

In the spring of 1996, I was the Rolf Sammet Guest Professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main in Germany. One afternoon, I accompanied one of the chemistry department s professors to a part of the city of Frankfurt called Sachsenhausen to enjoy Ebbelwoi, a German hard cider. As we sat in the sun, relaxing, the conversation turned to a comparison between life in Americ...

Breaking the Silence at Spanish Universities

The first research conducted on violence against women in the university context in Spain reveals that 62% of the students know of or have experienced situations of this kind within the university institutions, but only 13% identify these situations in the first place. Two main interrelated aspects arise from the data analysis: not identifying and acknowledging violent situations, and the lack ...