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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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Categories Moral Optimism Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, globalization, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, Ruth Benedict, Tim Ingold Leave a comment

Trade

Contraband Corridor: Trade & Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Border

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.

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Boundaries, Borders, Walls

Flores - No Border Walls - Boundaries

Human history is marked by migration, cooperation, group permeability, & interconnection. Recent efforts to build walls harms human potential.

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Farmers & Foodies of the Future (FFF)

Seguin - Around Quitting Time - Farmers Foodies Future

Sustainable production of food will in the future require more of us to be involved in the process. The world is going to need a lot more farmers & food makers.

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Anthropology & US Immigration

Terrio - Unaccompanied Undocumented Children in US Immigration Custody - Studying Immigration

There is a lot of great anthropology studying immigration in the United States. Immigration is central to the study of anthropology and to humanity.

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Anthropology on Immigration

Shadow of the Wall - Anthropology on Immigration

Anthropology has studied immigration and stands with immigrants against mass human rights violations.

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Venezuela & Anthropology

Schiller - Channeling the State - Will Venezuela Recover

With the Venezuela elections, questions of “Will Venezuela recover?” or “Will Venezuela collapse?” arise. Anthropological resources for longer-term perspective.

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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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What if people stop funding the US?

Graeber - Debt - When will the US run out of money

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.?

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Collapse and/or Authoritarianism

Apocalypse Metamorphosis - When will US government collapse

The US Executive & Legislative branches are non-functioning institutions. Even scarier, they risk authoritarian takeover in a political or economic crisis.

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When will the US Stock Market Collapse?

Eriksen - Overheating - When will the 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.

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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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Society for Economic Anthropology at #AmAnth2018

Money from Nothing - Society for Economic Anthropology

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!

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CIA & Anthropology

Cold War Anthropology - CIA and Anthropology

Sponsored by the Hardy Chair Lecture Series, a public lecture by Dr. David H. Price: “Tracing Funding, Tracing Impacts: The CIA and 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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Bring Sanity to Gun Violence

War, Peace, and Human Nature - Gun Control Podcast

As gun violence continues in the United States, this gun control podcast reflects on how anthropology can bring sanity and contribute to political debate.

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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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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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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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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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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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Anthropology Is Your Ally

Wallerstein - End of the World as We Know It - Social Science and Humanities

An impassioned plea to lower the arrogance decibels. In the wake of Steven Pinker’s “Science Is Not Your Enemy” assessing humanities & science together.

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