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Upstate Latinx

Harvest of Empire - Latinx Latina/o Studies

A course on “Upstate Latinx” as part of the “Discover Your Place” seminar series. Using the book Latina/o Studies by Ronald Mize.

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Is anthropology more important than ever?

Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life or Is Anthropology more Important than ever

New books in 2021 plug Anthro-Vision. But is anthropology more important than ever? After decades of teaching, we need to ask: What happened?

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Biden-Harris: Unity Over Division

Biden-Harris Anthropology

Endorsing Biden-Harris from anthropology: Tribal Nations, immigration, racial equity, global community, and the climate emergency.

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Race, Racism, & Protesting Anthropology

Get 15 free-to-read articles on “Race, Racism, and Protesting Anthropology.” Available July-August 2020 in the “Confronting Anti-BIPOC Racism” resources.

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Purpose of Living Anthropologically

Purpose of Living Anthropologically

Reconsidering the purpose of Living Anthropologically and adjusting to global convulsions. We need to document history, interconnection, & power. We need to care for others as we attempt to build a world together

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Coronavirus & Academia

Camus The Plague Coronavirus COVID-19

Academia should be at the forefront of imagining more radical possibilities for going beyond our current coronavirus crisis.

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Trade

Contraband Corridor: Trade & Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Border

Please share your thoughts on the best anthropological readings on trade and exchange! The December issue of Open Anthropology will feature 15 articles on trade.

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Impeachment & Anthropology

Concentration Camps - Impeachment Anthropology

From anthropology, the reasons for Trump’s immediate impeachment include treatment of migrants, international destabilization, and the climate crisis.

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Hearing Women Talk

Gal Irvine - Signs of Difference - Women Speak

Open Anthropology on gender, language, and power. “Hearing Women Talk” presents fascinating anthropological work on voices that have often been unheard.

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Boundaries, Borders, Walls

Flores - No Border Walls - Boundaries

Human history is marked by migration, cooperation, group permeability, & interconnection. Recent efforts to build walls harms human potential.

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Teaching Latin America 2019

Poole - Companion to Teaching Latin America

Resources for teaching Latin America and Caribbean 2019 themes anthropologically in a one-month intensive undergraduate-level class.

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Antonio Delgado NY-19

From Boas To Black Power

In NY-19 we elected Antonio Delgado as a representative to do the job of providing oversight. In 2019, that oversight should include supporting impeachment.

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Anthropology in Brazil

Anthropology in Brazil - Antropologia Uma Introdução

Suggestions for the main subjects to include in an anthropology textbook for teaching introduction to anthropology in Brazil.

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Farmers & Foodies of the Future (FFF)

Seguin - Around Quitting Time - Farmers Foodies Future

Sustainable production of food will in the future require more of us to be involved in the process. The world is going to need a lot more farmers & food makers.

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Anthropology & US Immigration

Terrio - Unaccompanied Undocumented Children in US Immigration Custody - Studying Immigration

There is a lot of great anthropology studying immigration in the United States. Immigration is central to the study of anthropology and to humanity.

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Nacirema Thinking

Culture and Truth - Body Ritual among the Nacirema

Although Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” has been assigned for thousands of anthropology courses, we need to think before using it uncritically.

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Anthropology on Immigration

Shadow of the Wall - Anthropology on Immigration

Anthropology has studied immigration and stands with immigrants against mass human rights violations.

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Becoming White

Brodkin - How Jews Became White - Becoming White, Policing Whiteness

Anthropology reveals that racial identities are not biologically given but a social process. Racism is crucial to becoming white and policing whiteness.

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Venezuela & Anthropology

Schiller - Channeling the State - Will Venezuela Recover

With the Venezuela elections, questions of “Will Venezuela recover?” or “Will Venezuela collapse?” arise. Anthropological resources for longer-term perspective.

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Anthropology as Open Marriage

Open Marriage - Shankman Public Anthropology Margaret Mead

When someone types “what is marriage?” into Google, anthropology should be all over the results. Margaret Mead offers lessons for anthropological expertise.

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Starbucks Enlightenment

Starbucks - Racism - Anthropology

Anthropology condemns the revival of biological race. Some join against racist calls to police black people. But what about race & racism within anthropology?

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What should you do?

Fast Easy Cash - If the United States Collapses

We seem to be living through a process of declining US hegemony. However, if the United States collapses as an event rather than a process, what’s the plan?

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What if people stop funding the US?

Graeber - Debt - When will the US run out of money

The United States is running nearly one trillion dollar annual deficits, piling onto a mountain of existing debt. What happens if people stop funding the U.S.?

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Collapse and/or Authoritarianism

Apocalypse Metamorphosis - When will US government collapse

The US Executive & Legislative branches are non-functioning institutions. Even scarier, they risk authoritarian takeover in a political or economic crisis.

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When will the US Stock Market Collapse?

Eriksen - Overheating - When will the stock market collapse

The first indicator we could be headed for a collapse in the United States may be a US stock market collapse. Translating from CNBC, it does look dire.

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