Prof. Perry was on WAMC’s Academic Minute to talk about her research with white-faced capuchin monkeys that shows that a stable and peaceful childhood leads to success later in life. The interview and transcript can be found here.
Dr. Lemelson is an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology and among other roles is the founder of the film company Elemental Productions. You can listen to the podcast here.
Prof. Lemelson has just released two new documentary films from his work in Indonesia. Standing on the Edge of a Thorn follows a rural Indonesian family over the course of twelve years as they struggle with poverty, mental illness, and participation in the sex trade. Ngaben: Emotion & Restraint in a Balinese Heart is a look at the famous ngaben, or […]
Post doctoral scholar and now visiting scholar Dr. Carolina Izquierdo’s work on spoiled children has been featured in an article in the New Yorker. The article contrasts the roles and behaviors of Amazonian hunter-gather children with the Los Angelino children studied in the Center for the Everyday Lives of Families research project. Read the article in the New Yorker here.
Prof. Arnold is one of ten new members of the Academy and the only new Honorary Fellow elected this year. Prof. Arnold is a leading authority on Pacific coast hunter-gatherer complexity and has conducted research on the lives of modern families with the Center for the Everyday Lives of Families. She is the author of the new book Life at […]
The article (in Spanish) can be read here.
CELF and Anthropology Department researchers Jeanne Arnold, Anthony Graesh, and Elinor Ochs have published Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors, the first book based on the Center’s years of family research. Check out the article and a photo slide show at the UCLA Newsroom.Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century @AmazonBarnes and NobleCotsen Institute of […]
Anthropology Department Professor Jeff Brantingham and coauthors have had their paper “The Ecology of Gang Territorial Boundaries” published in the journal Criminology. The researchers employed a mathematical model used for years to determine animal hunting ranges to map the territories of street gangs in Los Angeles. They found that the borders of territories between gangs are […]
Dr. Graesch, a former graduate student and post doctoral researcher at UCLA and now an assistant professor at Connecticut College, is an author of Life at Home in the Twenty-first Century: 32 Families Open their Doors. He speaks with the New York Times about the Center for the Everyday Lives of Families research featured in the new book. […]
Prof. Perry and researchers at the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project in Costa Rica have found that juvenile male white-faced capuchin monkeys thrive when raised in a group in which their father is an alpha male. Learn more at the UCLA Newsroom.
