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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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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 should you do?

Fast Easy Cash - If the United States Collapses

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?

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When will the United States collapse?

Third World War - 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.

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Teaching Trouillot

Ferry - Minerals Collecting Value - Teaching Trouillot Contemporary Anthropological Theory

Contemporary Anthropological Theory is a course meant to change how we think. Teaching Trouillot as “Burning Questions” provides relevance for anthropology.

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Anthropology: Unfinished Revolution

Sidney Mintz - Sweetness and Power

What Would Sid Do? Reflections on the Sidney Mintz legacy in anthropology. Teaching Introduction to Anthropology as Global History & Interconnection.

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Coalition of the Diverse

November Rain - Racially Mixed Crowd as Coalition of the Diverse

In November 2018, we can assemble the “coalition of the diverse” that almost came together in 2016: A racially mixed crowd in the November Rain.

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Anthropology Boycott

BDS Movement Anthropology Boycott

The BDS Movement merits support, but an anthropology boycott of Israeli academic institutions by the AAA is a too easy “take a stand” moment from academe.

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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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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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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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hope: the first anthropological emotion

Anthropological Hope

“The first anthropological emotion is hope” (Carole McGranahan) and also via Ingold, Trouillot, Lennon & Ono “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”

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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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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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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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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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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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