By Tae Cimarosti
On October 14th, our graduate students took a walk with Patricia Shanley, co-director of the Ridgewood Conservancy, and a group of Princeton High School volunteers through the Ridgeview Woods.
The green sanctuary, just three miles north-west of campus, is one of the most recent acquisitions of…
The Daily Princetonian remembers Dr. Alfonso Ortiz, who served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology in the 1970s. Ortiz was a member of the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo. He studied and wrote about his own community and advocated for Indigenous scholars during his time at Princeton.
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Graduate Student, Noah Collins was interviewed by The Daily Princetonian on “What does Indigenous look like to you?”. Collins is from Cherokee reservation and an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. In the interview Collins states his message is, “This has been and will always be Indigenous land.”
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By Tae Cimarosti
On September 26th, our first-year graduate cohort met with Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Enjoying one of the last days of summer in the serene quiet of the White-Levy Room, the group of students– led…
Graduate student Nicolás Díaz Letelier published the article “Trapped Present, or the Capture(d) Affects of Imprisonment" in Current Anthropology. The article is a visual and narrative exploration of the everyday effects of captivity at Easter Island's Penitentiary Complex, or the so-called 'happiest prison in the world'. Díaz Letelier…
Graduate student, Kymberley Chu, has recently written a personal essay for Sentient Media entitled “How the Media Greenwashes Industrial Pig Farming in Malaysia.” The essay is a blend of Chu’s journalistic reportage and critical analysis of industrial pig farming in Malaysia. It dives deeply into how media coverage of animal diseases…
Hildred Storey Geertz (1927 – 2022)
It is with great sadness that we report that our beloved colleague, the anthropologist Hildred Storey Geertz, has passed away peacefully at her home on September 30, 2022, at age 95.
Professor Geertz joined the Princeton University faculty in 1971 and was instrumental…
Professor Agustín Fuentes published an article in Big Think, "Humans are not 'tribal.'" In his article, Fuentes writes about human nature and how we are great at classifying each other into types and groups. Fuentes states, "From politics to culture, we blame “tribalism” for humanity’s problems. Human intergroup conflicts and how they…
Junior Genrietta Churbanova recently wrote an article on the STEM-humanities divide at Princeton in The Daily Princetonian. As an Anthropology major, Churbanova defends her major and asks a few good questions. Read the full article here…