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Government Planning & Anthropology

Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform - Government Planning

Anthropology should stand against the ideologues insisting government planning is inherently flawed.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags capitalism, human nature, planning, political economy, politics, Sidney Mintz 6 Comments

Cultural Relativism & Anthropology

McGovern - Socialist Peace - Cultural Relativism

An assessment of cultural relativism & anthropology in 2011 as “Before you Judge, Stand in Her Shoes” dueled with “Don’t walk a mile in her shoes.”

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, cultural relativism, culture, immigration, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, Ruth Benedict, Tim Ingold 2 Comments

Mismeasuring Gould

Mismeasure of Man - Mismeasure of Science

“The Mismeasure of Science” reassessed Gould’s “Mismeasure of Man.” In a climate of race resurgence and attacking anthropology, this was a horrible idea.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, evolution, genetics, Nicholas Wade, politics, race, racism 22 Comments

Australopithecine Teeth & Gender

Australopithecine Teeth

Fascinating study of australopithecine teeth and residence patterns. Ridiculous headlines about gender and family. Anthropology analyzes science and media.

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Are Perceptions of Anti-White Bias Increasing?

Anti-White Bias Graph 2011

2011 article “Is Anti-White Bias a Problem?” revealed a delusion of perceived anti-white bias, but researchers deceptively argued it was new or increasing.

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Do anthropologists study everything?

Toward an Anthropology of Women - Anthropology is Necessary

Anthropologists don’t study everything. Anthropology studies important issues, in context, and gets real data. Anthropology is necessary.

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Categories What is Anthropology? Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, David Brooks, Eric Wolf, evolution, gender, political economy, Sidney Mintz 4 Comments

#EndFGM Together

Female Circumcision - Is female circumcision torture

Many commenters have described female circumcision as “torture.” Anthropology can respond without sensationalizing or approving.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, cultural relativism, culture, gender, introduction to anthropology, politics 2 Comments

Why do we celebrate killing?

To challenge “Why we celebrate killing” anthropology must emphasize political economy, going beyond idea of instincts shaped by culture.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, evolution, human nature, political economy, Tim Ingold 9 Comments

War on Terror

Weaponizing Anthropology - War on Terror

With death of Osama bin Laden, how anthropology supports pursuing criminals, not blanket “war on terror,” and anthropology questions xenophobic nationalism.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags anthropology branding, cultural relativism, culture, empathy, politics, Ruth Benedict 3 Comments

Anthropology, Ambushed

Conjuring Crisis - Ambushed

Anthropology got in the news for a “F— You Republicans” e-mail. Can anthropology survive the ambush? On understanding conservative victimhood politics.

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Categories Anthropologists Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, gender, Nicholas Wade, politics 3 Comments

Anthropology 101 in 2011

This post on Anthropology 101 in 2011 was a call to action for introductory courses to address the big themes of Human Nature, Race, & Evolution.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, David Brooks, education, evolution, genetics, human nature, Jared Diamond, race, racism, textbooks 4 Comments

Racism Reality Check

Reproducing Race - Race Remixed

The idea of “Race Remixed” was always questionable. Census numbers didn’t show remixing, but a racism of persistent inequalities and “probationary whites.”

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, immigration, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race, race mixing, racism 21 Comments

Popularizing Anthro 1996-2011

Popularizing Anthropology - Anthro-Flop-ology

Reading “Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nurture” leads to lessons from attempts at popularizing anthropology, 1996-2011.

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Culture Doesn’t Matter

Culture Matters

Does culture matter? Anthropology promoted culture, but the book “Culture Matters”–and David Brooks–reveal a perverted idea of culture.

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, cultural relativism, culture, David Brooks, Latin America, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, Sidney Mintz 8 Comments

Cosmopolitanism & Cultural Relativism

Have the promoters of anthropological cosmopolitanism considered the proximity of Cosmopolitan the magazine? Does cosmopolitanism improve on cultural relativism?

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Loving Anthropology

Power and Protest in the Countryside - Loving Anthropology

Loving anthropology for the questions it asks, the way anthropologists search for answers, and the importance of the answers to our world.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags anthropology branding, education, empathy, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, politics, Sidney Mintz 8 Comments

Anthropology Textbooks: Doubling down on culture?

Doubling Down on Culture in Anthropology

Kottak and Gezon’s Culture uses a magazine-style textbook to double down on culture in anthropology. That’s problematic–culture is already everywhere.

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, cultural relativism, culture, education, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, politics, race, Ruth Benedict, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 6 Comments

Popularizing Anthropology

Popularizing Anthropology - Code is Poetry

Popularizing Anthropology: Learning some “code is poetry” roughly parallels what Ruth Benedict did before publishing Patterns of Culture in 1934.

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The First Post

The very first post in 2011. A discussion of branding anthropology rippling through the anthropology blogosphere, and the tiny part I played.

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