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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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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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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 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 is Anthropology?

Ingold - Anthropology Education - What is Anthropology - 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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Anthropology Matters

Open Anthropology Matters

The October 2017 issue of Open Anthropology promotes material linked to the #AmAnth17 meetings, Anthropology Matters (November 29-December 3).

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Hackonomy

Bough - Hackonomy

Bonin Bough’s lecture at Hartwick College on “Hackonomy” paralleled themes in Introduction to Anthropology and Cultural Ecology.

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Relevant Teaching for the 21st Century

Defending Anthropology Social Media Workshop

4-5 February 2016 at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill: “Defending Anthropology 101 and the Mega-Class: Relevant Teaching for the 21st Century.”

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Culture, Culture, Everywhere

culture

With anthropologists saying many things about culture, is it any wonder the students and the public are confused?

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Anthropology Major Jobs

Strang - What Anthropologists Do - Anthropology Jobs and 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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Anthropology’s Brief Reign (2015)

Articulating Hidden Histories - Anthropology is Taking Over the World Bank

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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Transformational Storytelling Anthropology

Ulysse - Transformational Storytelling Anthropology

Anthropology and Storytelling – Stories that must be told to transform the anthropocene. And yet: Can anthropology spell out relevance for a wider audience?

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Humans Just Like Us?

Open Anthropology - Humans Just Like Us

Is the time gone for reaffirming that the Bongobongo are “humans just like us”? And does Open Access anthropology spell out the stakes for a wider public?

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The Other Side of Participant Observation

Teaching cultural anthropology

Resources and thoughts on Teaching Cultural Anthropology for fall 2014: “Teaching is the other side of participant observation” (Tim Ingold, Making 2013:13)

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Margaret Mead & Jared Diamond

Shankman - Trashing Margaret Mead - Public Anthropology

What makes Jared Diamond possible? Discussant commentary for the panel “Margaret Mead and Jared Diamond: Past Publics, Current Engagements.”

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Entangling the Biological

Introduction to Anthropology

An Introduction to Anthropology course for 2014, with emphasis on “entangling the biological” and the relevance of anthropology for important dialogue.

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Is the State Relevant?

Anthropology of the State

Globalization was supposed to render the national state irrelevant. Such claims had already been disproved by an anthropology of the state.

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Irony, Paradox, Uncertainty

Advertising Missionaries

Pairing “Advertising Missionaries” with “A Fragmented Globality” to ask “What, if anything, is truly new about our times?” (Trouillot 2003:47)

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Fetishizing Fieldwork on the Road to Essentialism

Anthropology Beyond Culture - Adieu Culture

Fieldwork and the ethnographic monograph invited closure around cultural wholes. Anthropology can defend the concept of culture while jettisoning the word.

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How do we get out from culture?

Bourdieu - Outline - Gang Culture

Are there ways to counter the notion of “gang culture” without promoting myths of individualism? Can we usefully bring anthropology to the courtroom?

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The Concept of Culture

Patterns of Culture - Ruth Benedict Concept of Culture

Ruth Benedict’s Patterns of Culture translated Boasian Anthropology and its concept of culture to a mass audience. Plus problematic cultural wholes.

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anthropology will only matter if it evokes a purpose outside of itself

Global Transformations - Purpose of Anthropology - Moral Optimism

Thinking about the purpose of anthropology: “Ultimately, anthropology will only matter… if it evokes a purpose outside of itself” (Trouillot 2003, 5)

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Anthropology Is Your Ally

Wallerstein - End of the World as We Know It - Social Science and Humanities

An impassioned plea to lower the arrogance decibels. In the wake of Steven Pinker’s “Science Is Not Your Enemy” assessing humanities & science together.

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We Cannot Abandon Humanity

Virtual War and Magical Death - Bill Gates

When Bill Gates recommends Jared Diamond & Steven Pinker, reiterate anthropology’s calling: “the fate of no human group can be irrelevant to humankind” (Trouillot).

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