Activist Anthropology with the Haudenosaunee

The Consumer as Climate Activist

Consumption of green products is growing rapidly in the United States. We assessed the extent to which this consumption is motivated by a desire to promote societal-level change in corporate practices that affect the climate, and posit a social–cognitive model in which people’s global warming beliefs and consumer activism beliefs predict their green purchasing goals, behavior, and opinion leade...

The pioneer, the activist: an interview with Trevor Hancock.

Ross Graham (RG): What attracted you to public health? Trevor Hancock (TH): After four years of family practice, I was tired of patching people up and sending them back into the war. I wanted to go upstream. This interest was also triggered by my involvement in ecological politics and my work at a health centre in Etobicoke where the majority of patients were on some form of social support. The...

The ‘Liability of Foreignness’ Associated with Activist Groups

Keeping Biological Anthropology in Anthropology, and Anthropology in Biology

Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over one hundred years, enhancing the holistic ...

NEW POLISH ANTHROPOLOGY Despite the fact that anthropology in Poland faces the same crisis as anthropology

Despite the fact that anthropology in Poland faces the same crisis as anthropology worldwide, namely, the disappearance of the traditional subjects of interest, it still maintains, a unique theoretical and methodological perspective, the main points of which are: holism, qualitative methods, methodical skepticism and a focus on the primacy of culture. This approach also appears to be useful in ...