December 5, 2025
Anthropological Predictions 2017-2025
In 2017, I made 7 anthropological predictions about the future. In 2025, they were accurate—from Indigenous resurgence to political volatility
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July 20, 2024
Non-Sovereign Futures in Anthropology
For this class in the history of anthropological thought (2022) I introduced Yarimar Bonilla’s Non-Sovereign Futures for a consideration of ... Read more
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July 15, 2024
Birth of the Modern World
Explore how colonial Latin America shaped global trade & ecology. Uncover the roots of Western civilization in the birth of the modern world.
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June 22, 2021
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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June 30, 2020
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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#AmplifyBlackVoices: US White Supremacy & Anthropology
"Black lives do not actually matter to anthropology, so far as I can see: and if they did, I could be speaking out freely from within the borders of the United States."
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May 25, 2020
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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May 2, 2020
Coronavirus & Academia
Academia should be at the forefront of imagining more radical possibilities for going beyond our current coronavirus crisis.
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August 1, 2018
Farmers & Foodies of the Future (FFF)
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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May 29, 2018
Becoming White
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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May 6, 2018
Anthropology as Open Marriage
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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April 28, 2018
Is Anthropology better than Starbucks?
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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April 18, 2018
Peasants and Artisans
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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February 19, 2018
Anthropology and Gun Reform
Anthropological research informs gun violence prevention and policy. Resources on ethnography, social movements, anthropology and gun reform.
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November 12, 2017
Potentials of Human Life
To the question of "What is Anthropology?": Anthropology is a generous comparative inquiry into the conditions & potentials of human life.
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October 11, 2017
Teaching Trouillot
Contemporary Anthropological Theory is a course meant to change how we think. Teaching Trouillot as "Burning Questions" provides relevance for anthropology.
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June 5, 2017
Music of Anthropology
Articles on "Music - Anthropology - Life" were free to read from June 2017 to June 2018 on Open Anthropology.
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December 26, 2016
Anthropology: Unfinished Revolution
What Would Sid Do? Reflections on the Sidney Mintz legacy in anthropology. Teaching Introduction to Anthropology as Global History & Interconnection.
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May 17, 2016
Anthropology Boycott
The BDS Movement merits support, but an anthropology boycott of Israeli academic institutions by the AAA is a too easy "take a stand" moment from academe.
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December 6, 2015
Gun Control Podcast Anthropology
As gun violence continues in the United States, this gun control podcast reflects on how anthropology can bring sanity and contribute to political debate.
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September 21, 2015
Challenges in Defining Culture in Anthropology
With anthropologists saying many things about culture, is it any wonder the students and the public are confused?
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August 31, 2015
How Did Anthropology Begin?
Early episodes of European colonialism, plantation slavery in the Caribbean, and Darwin in Tierra del Fuego are crucial to "How Did Anthropology Begin?"
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July 1, 2015
Anthropology Major Jobs
Please help a recent high school graduate who desperately wants to be an anthropology major but worries about the anthropology major jobs after graduation.
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March 31, 2015
Anthropology’s Brief Reign (2015)
With President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan, President Barack Obama of the US, and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Anthropology is taking over the world.
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December 27, 2014
hope: the first anthropological emotion
"The first anthropological emotion is hope" (Carole McGranahan) and also via Ingold, Trouillot, Lennon & Ono "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"
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