"Round up the usual suspects": Anthropology goes to the movies

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Many forms of traditional film study resist the idea that movies are cultural artifacts that look at how important cultural questions are answered, but from an anthropological perspective, movies are a shared set of culturally significant and symbolic stories. Movies are more than just the stories they tell, they are symbolic constructs, systems of symbols that help people think, feel, and act, believe anthropologists.

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Representations of the land: anthropology and aboriginals

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The daughter of an Australian anthropologist describes the anthropological memoir she is working on focused on her father, Frank Reeves, the aborigine who accompanied him on a famous 1948 trip, and another aborigine who saved the two from death by dehydration. Frank Reeves discovered Wolfe Creek Crater, the world's second largest meteorite crater.

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Dreaming of Tuscany: pursuing the anthropology of culinary tourism

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Anthropologists can study culinary tourism by understanding the food symbols important to each region and why they appeal to travelers and tourism as cultural phenomena affects more than just local, regional, and national economics.

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