A blog offering critical perspectives on police, security, crime, law and punishment around the world. Open Access Articles from the American Anthropological Association.

Anthropology, politics and human security. In recent weeks Savageminds drew attention to the need for anthropology to be more engaging and public, with posts by Erin Taylor. One major impediment to a more visible public anthropology has been alluded to last week by Joshua Rothman. In the New Yorker where he dissects the recent commentary by journalist Nicholas Kristof. Lessons About Refugees From an Australian Immigration Crisis. Refugee from Myanmar with child, living in Malaysia. As I opened the mornin.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded, and beamed at the world. Post-mortem Evidence of the Jonestown Massacre. Came to be known by most as the Jonestown Massacre.

A snippet I wrote while biking alone in Brazil en route to Amambai, where I met The Magic Circus, a travelling family of 5 who put on big top circus shows throughout Brazil. But before I met and subsequently travelled with them, I had to bike through ALOOOOT of big open, vast cattle land, that was once forest. Jutting out like whale vertebrae. In a sea of nothing. As I pass by,. To an inevitable fate,.