Coronavirus & Academia
Academia should be at the forefront of imagining more radical possibilities for going beyond our current coronavirus crisis.
Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility
Academia should be at the forefront of imagining more radical possibilities for going beyond our current coronavirus crisis.
Anthropology has studied immigration and stands with immigrants against mass human rights violations.
Anthropology condemns the revival of biological race. Some join against racist calls to police black people. But what about race & racism within anthropology?
“The first anthropological emotion is hope” (Carole McGranahan) and also via Ingold, Trouillot, Lennon & Ono “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”
At the 2012 American Anthropological Association, Sidney Mintz received the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology and papers in honor.
Research on earliest Americans reveals multiple migrations and complexity. But Nicholas Wade botches the coverage–and the anthropology.
On the sorely-felt need for humility, empathy, and sympathy. On science, intelligence, Adam Smith, economics, Wealth of Nations, Theory of Moral Sentiments.
With death of Osama bin Laden, how anthropology supports pursuing criminals, not blanket “war on terror,” and anthropology questions xenophobic nationalism.
Loving anthropology for the questions it asks, the way anthropologists search for answers, and the importance of the answers to our world.