Annual Review of Anthropology, Climate Change, Anthropocene. This is a guest post by Sean Seary. A Hartwick College graduate interested in understanding human interactions with biological and social environments, and how anthropology can use that knowledge to mitigate the impacts of globalization and global climate change. Seary wrote this review as part of a January 2015 internship to help curate an issue of Open Anthropology.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015. There is so much talk about stopping the mothering competition. To say that the mothering competition exists makes me cringe a little. I like to believe that being a mother is hard enough, no mother is purposely trying to show or tell another mother how much better she is or how much worst the other mother is. Of course, I am an idealist.