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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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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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Anthropology for a Safer World

March for our Lives #ParklandStudentsSpeak Against Guns

Open Anthropology highlights anthropological research for understanding and teaching about gun violence & the #MarchForOurLives for gun reform

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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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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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Bring Sanity to Gun Violence

War, Peace, and Human Nature - Gun Control Podcast

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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Culture, Culture, Everywhere

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

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How Did Anthropology Begin?

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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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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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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Purchasing Power / Buying & Believing

Purchasing Power

A double review from 2003 of Elizabeth Chin’s Purchasing Power and Steven Kemper’s Buying and Believing. A review that went poof! from American Ethnologist.

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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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Fieldwork & Kinshipology

Return to Laughter - Laura Bohannan

Laura Bohannan’s Return to Laughter is a great book to discuss institutionalized fieldwork in anthropology and how kinshipology trumped messier discoveries.

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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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Globalization Stories

McNeill - Global Condition - Globalization Stories

Contemporary stories of globalization erase centuries of contact and encounter: Exploring the North Atlantic fiction of modernity as a seductive universal.

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When Culture Looks like Race

Susanne Kuehling - Dobu

Anthropology saw culture as anti-race, yet descriptions of Dobu in Patterns of Culture, show culture reified–and looking a lot like race.

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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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White-Race Problems

White - Richard Dyer - White Hispanic

Don’t worry White people! White Hispanics and our White Black President will save us! Geraldo Rivera’s Fox News fact-twisting shows race retrenchment.

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Epigenetics & Human Nature

Everett - Language The Cultural Tool - Epigenetics

Could epigenetics finally re-write the script about human nature? Maybe, but first we have to go over The Edge’s promotional tribute to Napoleon Chagnon.

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Power & the Culture of Greed

Words at Work and Play: David Brooks is a Cultural Problem

Brooks uses culture to bypass power, inequality, economics, politics, and history. That’s the real cultural problem–and a problem anthropology must tackle.

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Party Like It’s 1999… with Napoleon Chagnon!

War in the Tribal Zone & Napoleon Chagnon

If “anthropology’s future depends largely on its ability to contest the Savage slot” (Trouillot) then what about Napoleon Chagnon?

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