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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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Categories Moral Optimism Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, fieldwork, gun violence, immigration, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, occupy, planning, political economy, politics, racism 9 Comments

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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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, human nature, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, occupy, planning, political economy, textbooks 15 Comments

We Cannot Abandon Humanity

Virtual War and Magical Death - Bill Gates

When Bill Gates recommends Jared Diamond & Steven Pinker, reiterate anthropology’s calling: “the fate of no human group can be irrelevant to humankind” (Trouillot).

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Categories What is Anthropology? Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, cultural relativism, Eric Wolf, gun violence, human nature, immigration, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, occupy, political economy, politics 9 Comments

Anthropology: Best Major to Change Your Life

Casino Capitalism - Anthropology Major College Major

Check out an Anthropology Major! It’s the worst college major for instant pay, but best major to change your life. And Anthropology can change the world.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, education, occupy, planning, political economy, politics 50 Comments

Beyond Capitalism

Beyond Capitalism - Political Ecologies

Boone Shear and Brian Burke organized a special track for alternative political ecologies for 2012 Applied Anthropology, seeking to go Beyond Capitalism.

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The Cost of Savings

Fighting the planned closing of a neighborhood school based on a false economy of market-based choices and political expediency. The cost of saving schools.

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Four Field Manifesto

Communist Manifesto - Anthropology, Moral Optimism, Capitalism - Four Fields Manifesto

Anthropology’s Moral Optimism: Four Field Manifesto & alternative visions of humanity. Capitalism is not the most beautiful or respectful of shared planet.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, David Brooks, Eric Wolf, evolution, gender, human nature, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, occupy, planning, political economy, politics, primates, Sidney Mintz, Tim Ingold 59 Comments

Anthropology & Occupy Wall Street

Debt - Occupy Wall Street

In October 2011, the anthropological blogosphere coalesced around supporting Occupy Wall Street. But why is there not a similar movement in 2019?

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