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Columbus Day: Everybody’s Working Through the Weekend

Anthropology on Columbus Day

Anthropology on Columbus Day: As painful as it is to re-examine Loverboy’s “Working for the Weekend” (even in ironic mode), something seems awry in academia

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, assessment, education, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, politics 3 Comments

Fernando Coronil, In Memoriam

Fernando Coronil - The Magical State

Fernando Coronil worked toward the moral optimism of anthropology, “energizing struggles to build a world made of many worlds.”

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Categories Anthropologists Tags capitalism, Fernando Coronil, globalization, human nature, Latin America, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, Venezuela 3 Comments

Cultural Relativism & Anthropology

McGovern - Socialist Peace - Cultural Relativism

An assessment of cultural relativism & anthropology in 2011 as “Before you Judge, Stand in Her Shoes” dueled with “Don’t walk a mile in her shoes.”

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, cultural relativism, culture, immigration, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, Ruth Benedict, Tim Ingold 2 Comments

Racism Reality Check

Reproducing Race - Race Remixed

The idea of “Race Remixed” was always questionable. Census numbers didn’t show remixing, but a racism of persistent inequalities and “probationary whites.”

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, immigration, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race, race mixing, racism 21 Comments

Culture Doesn’t Matter

Culture Matters

Does culture matter? Anthropology promoted culture, but the book “Culture Matters”–and David Brooks–reveal a perverted idea of culture.

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, cultural relativism, culture, David Brooks, Latin America, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, Sidney Mintz 8 Comments

Loving Anthropology

Power and Protest in the Countryside - Loving Anthropology

Loving anthropology for the questions it asks, the way anthropologists search for answers, and the importance of the answers to our world.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags anthropology branding, education, empathy, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, politics, Sidney Mintz 8 Comments

Anthropology Textbooks: Doubling down on culture?

Doubling Down on Culture in Anthropology

Kottak and Gezon’s Culture uses a magazine-style textbook to double down on culture in anthropology. That’s problematic–culture is already everywhere.

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, cultural relativism, culture, education, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, politics, race, Ruth Benedict, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 6 Comments
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