Duke University Cultural Anthropology

  • Tiger

    Cultural Anthropology professor Orin Starn has written about the politics of sports, race, and celebrity scandal

  • Harris Solomon

    Cultural Anthropologist Harris Solomon: Studying Obesity in India

  • Writing Culture

    Writing Culture at 25 Theory/Ethnography/Fieldwork September 30 - October 1, 2011

  • Charlie

    Cultural Anthropology professor Charles Piot with entrepeneur Nicolas Batema, his Togolese research collaborator

  • Chinese Coke Commercial

    Cultural Anthropology Professor William O'Barr studies global advertising

  • Kente Cloth

    Cultural Anthropology Professors Lee Baker, J. Lorand Matory, and Charles Piot work in West Africa

CA professor Ralph Litzinger co-edits and contributes an essay on a            
Hot Spot issue of the journal of Cultural Anthropology on the recent wave of
self-immolations in Tibet. 

 

Meet graduate students Kristina Jacobsen and Brian Goldstone

 Kristina Jacobsen: On the Navajo Nation

 Brian Goldstone: The Miraculous Life


Franklin Humanities Institute & AMES, A public lecture

“Nation & Capitalist Region: Okakura Kakuzo, Rabindranath Tagore, and Contemporary East Asia”A Public LectureProf. C. J. Wan-ling Wee, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeFebruary 27, Monday, 4pm Smith warehouse, Garage C105 Bay 4
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Franklin Humanities Institute & AMES Faculty & Grad Students Seminar

Prof. C. J. Wan-ling WEE Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with Prof. Rey Chow, discussant “The Exhibitionary Imagination and the Urban Asian Modern” February 23, 1:30~3:30 Smith Warehouse C105 Bay 4 Recent
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Professor Litzinger interviewed

Professor Litzinger interviewed on the links between the Arab Spring and labor politics in the IT industry in China. The Arab Spring's Chinese roots... and future?
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What goes on in the mind of a sniper?

    • chris kyle in fallujah iraq
By Stephanie Hegarty BBC World Service Featuring cultural anthropologist Neta Bar.
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‘Office Hours’ with Professor Orin Starn Jan. 26 on Cultural Implications of Tiger Woods Sex Scandal

Duke University Professor Orin Starn answers questions about his new book "The Passion of Tiger Woods" and American golf culture during a live "Office Hours" conversation January 26, 2012. Duke alumnus and PGA golfer Joe Ogilvie comments in a video via Skype. Moderating the conversation is David Jarmul, associate…
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March 15, 2012

"Reflections of a Major Leaguer: A Conversation with Doug Glanville"

6:00 pm Pink Parlor, East Duke Duke Building

Doug Glanville played for the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies. He is now an ESPN baseball commentator as well as writing for the New York
Times and CNN.com.  He is the author of the recent book The Game From Where I Stand," and lives in Raleigh with his wife and three children.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Cultural Anthropology, the Center for African and African American Research, and the Franklin Humanities Institute Working Group on Sport.
 

May 2012

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