This week at ECHO, we will be holding a research design/brainstorming meeting focusing on MA student Gillian Faircloth’s potential plans for conducting thesis research on language, embodiment, and the language of guns and gun control activism in the U.S. To help prepare for our discussion, we’ll be reading the short Anthropology News article “Trigger Happy

Our Department of Anthropology talk in the For Anthropologists Beginning Lifelong Engagements (FABLE) series features Dr. Chris Lynn.    Dr. Lynn will be speaking on the "Inking of Immunity: Using Tattooing to Explore Human Nature" this Friday, September 8, 3-4 PM in 103 ten Hoor.  For those interested in joining via Zoom, please contact Tanvi Padalkar (tpadalkar@crimson.ua.edu) for the password-protected link.

The James R. Bindon Endowed Lecture in Biocultural Anthropology and Health will be delivered by Dr. Alexandra Brewis of Arizona State University, on "Less Stigma, More Water: Unsung Pathways to Global Health." Abstract: A biocultural approach to health purposefully theorizes and tests the mechanisms that connect macro systems, individual wellbeing, and health outcomes. I will