Trade
Please share your thoughts on the best anthropological readings on trade and exchange! The December issue of Open Anthropology will feature 15 articles on trade.
globalization
Boundaries, Borders, Walls
Human history is marked by migration, cooperation, group permeability, & interconnection. Recent efforts to build walls harms human potential.
Anthropology on Immigration
Anthropology has studied immigration and stands with immigrants against mass human rights violations.
What should you do?
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?
What if people stop funding the US?
The United States is running nearly one trillion dollar annual deficits, piling onto a mountain of existing debt. What happens if people stop funding the U.S.?
Collapse and/or Authoritarianism
The US Executive & Legislative branches are non-functioning institutions. Even scarier, they risk authoritarian takeover in a political or economic crisis.
When will the US Stock Market Collapse?
The first indicator we could be headed for a collapse in the United States may be a US stock market collapse. Translating from CNBC, it does look dire.
When will the United States collapse?
In historical perspective, what seem like lived events become identifiable as processes. However, recent rumblings indicate a US collapse could be swift.
Volunteer Tourism
Readings and suggestions on Volunteer Tourism for an undergraduate anthropology student doing qualitative research in Costa Rica.
Society for Economic Anthropology at #AmAnth2018
The Society for Economic Anthropology invited #AmAnth2018 sessions. Topics included: global adaptation finance, energy economics, moral economies, labor & care work, cycles of economic boom and bust, migration, …the list goes on!
Latin America 2016
A 2016 book list for teaching Latin America & Caribbean Anthropology attempting to understand common themes in processes occurring across the Americas
Globalization Stories
Contemporary stories of globalization erase centuries of contact and encounter: Exploring the North Atlantic fiction of modernity as a seductive universal.
Fernando Coronil, In Memoriam
Fernando Coronil worked toward the moral optimism of anthropology, “energizing struggles to build a world made of many worlds.”