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Transformational Storytelling Anthropology

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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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Categories What is Anthropology? Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, culture, fieldwork, gender, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Nicholas Wade, race, racism, Tim Ingold 3 Comments

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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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, fieldwork, human nature, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Nicholas Wade, race, racism, Ruth Benedict, textbooks, Tim Ingold 7 Comments

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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Categories Anthropologists Tags agriculture, ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, Eric Wolf, fieldwork, human nature, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Nicholas Wade, political economy, politics, Sidney Mintz 23 Comments

Darwin in Mind–The End

Complexities - Evolutionary Psychology - Darwin in Mind

“Darwin in Mind: New Opportunities for Evolutionary Psychology” (2011) marked the end of evolutionary psychology as foil for anthropology.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, culture, ethnobiogeny, evolution, gender, genetics, human nature, natural selection, niche construction, Nicholas Wade, politics 14 Comments

DNA Battles

Earliest Americans Arrived in Waves, DNA Study Finds - Nicholas Wade

Research on earliest Americans reveals multiple migrations and complexity. But Nicholas Wade botches the coverage–and the anthropology.

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Categories Archaeology Tags education, empathy, evolution, genetics, Nicholas Wade, race mixing, textbooks 12 Comments

Scientific Humanism

Research Methods in Anthropology - Humanistic Science in Anthropology

“We should be the humanistic science and the scientific humanism that Eric Wolf described nearly 50 years ago” (H. Russell Bernard, Science in Anthropology)

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Categories What is Anthropology? Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, Eric Wolf, evolution, Nicholas Wade, politics 10 Comments

Admixture All the Way Down

Malinowski - Sexual Life - Admixture

Despite Nicholas Wade’s emphasis on splits among human groups, the research is clear that it’s admixture all the way down. Plus some Malinowski!

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags Denisovans, education, Eric Wolf, evolution, genetics, human nature, Nicholas Wade, race, race mixing, sex, sexuality, Sidney Mintz 9 Comments

Mismeasuring Gould

Mismeasure of Man - Mismeasure of Science

“The Mismeasure of Science” reassessed Gould’s “Mismeasure of Man.” In a climate of race resurgence and attacking anthropology, this was a horrible idea.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, evolution, genetics, Nicholas Wade, politics, race, racism 22 Comments

Australopithecine Teeth & Gender

Australopithecine Teeth

Fascinating study of australopithecine teeth and residence patterns. Ridiculous headlines about gender and family. Anthropology analyzes science and media.

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Anthropology, Ambushed

Conjuring Crisis - Ambushed

Anthropology got in the news for a “F— You Republicans” e-mail. Can anthropology survive the ambush? On understanding conservative victimhood politics.

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Categories Anthropologists Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, gender, Nicholas Wade, politics 3 Comments

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