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White-Race Problems

White - Richard Dyer - White Hispanic

Don’t worry White people! White Hispanics and our White Black President will save us! Geraldo Rivera’s Fox News fact-twisting shows race retrenchment.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags capitalism, culture, immigration, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race, race mixing, racism 44 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

Power & the Culture of Greed

Words at Work and Play: David Brooks is a Cultural Problem

Brooks uses culture to bypass power, inequality, economics, politics, and history. That’s the real cultural problem–and a problem anthropology must tackle.

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, cultural relativism, culture, David Brooks, education, language, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, racism 10 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

Gun Control & Shoddy Anthropology

Douglas Fry - Beyond War - Gun Control and Shoddy Anthropology

Arguments against gun control are rooted in shoddy anthropology: ideas about human nature, culture & history which anthropology does not support.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, gun violence, human nature, Jared Diamond, political economy, politics, Ruth Benedict 23 Comments

Indigenous Allies & Politics of Empire

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

The indigenous allies in Matthew Restall’s Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest point to contingent histories, not the inevitability of guns, germs & steel.

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Categories Archaeology Tags capitalism, Eric Wolf, Jared Diamond, Latin America, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race, racism, textbooks 17 Comments

Geography, States, Empires

Eric Wolf - Europe and the People Without History

Eric Wolf’s Europe and the People Without History attempts to answer Yali’s Question – Why Europe? It’s time to rediscover the history of Eric Wolf.

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Categories Archaeology Tags agriculture, ambushing anthropology, capitalism, culture, Eric Wolf, human nature, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 27 Comments

Yes, the guns really do matter.

How America Got Its Guns - Semi-Automatic Anthropology

In our urge to understand complexity, anthropologists can make things more complicated than necessary. The guns matter. The U.S. needs a semi-automatic ban.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, culture, education, gun violence, human nature, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race 18 Comments

Valuing & Devaluing Anthropology

How might sharing anthropology change anthropological research and presentation? An anthropology of value and the value of anthropology during devaluation.

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Categories Anthropology Blogs Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, culture, gender, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, primatology, race, Sidney Mintz 18 Comments

Sidney Mintz, Franz Boas, Anthropology – A Celebration

Mintz Three Ancient Colonies Caribbean Themes and Variations

At the 2012 American Anthropological Association, Sidney Mintz received the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology and papers in honor.

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Categories Anthropologists Tags agriculture, capitalism, empathy, fieldwork, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race, race mixing, racism, Sidney Mintz 4 Comments

Anthropology & Politics in 2012 Elections

Political Punditry and Anthropology

Anthropology should be front and center–the 2012 Obama Romney election concerns race, culture, history, and power, key issues for political anthropology.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, cultural relativism, culture, David Brooks, education, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race, race mixing, racism, Sidney Mintz 4 Comments

Conservative Goldmine

Between Barack and a Hard Place - Social Construction of Race

The “social construction of race” is a goldmine for conservative politics, offering endless denunciation, delusions of anti-white bias, & political venom.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, human nature, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race, racism, sports 12 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

(on Race/IQ)

American Conservative

In 2012. Ron Unz put my reading of Race/IQ in “The American Conservative,” asking if it is “Game Over” for Race IQ. It should have been–but it never is.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, genetics, political economy, politics, race, racism 10 Comments

Race IQ – Game Over: It was always all about wealth

Black Wealth White Wealth - Race IQ

The publication of “Race, IQ, and Wealth” by Ron Unz effectively is game over for Race IQ peddlers–it was always about wealth & inequality.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags capitalism, culture, education, genetics, Jared Diamond, political economy, politics, race, racism 48 Comments

The Headline We Should Be Reading

Anthropology 2012-2013

The headline I wish we were reading is how the nation gathered to reflect on Trouillot’s work and legacy: Anthropology Changed Everything.

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Categories Anthropologists Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, culture, David Brooks, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race, racism 5 Comments

Walmart Socialism

Utopia-Dystopia - Walmart Socialism

On using the informational-distributional capacities of Walmart to enact a sensible and sustainable future, Walmart Socialism and Utopia.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags agriculture, capitalism, human nature, planning, political economy, politics 10 Comments

Toward a Public & Green Economy

Inside Job - Expropriate Goldman Sachs Green Economy

We need public borrowing and job creation for a green economy. Expropriate Goldman-Sachs to bypass political impasse via public ownership.

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Whiteness is a Project

Glissant Caribbean Discourse - Whiteness and White Privilege

Power and how power is projected must be understood as a process, not as a thing. Whiteness & White Privilege is an ongoing project and process.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, Eric Wolf, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race, race mixing, racism 3 Comments

Reform AND Revolution: Reasons to not Abandon the Quest

Tsing - Friction - Reform - Revolution

“The inadequacy of the bridge seems hardly a good enough reason to have abandoned the quest” (Anna Tsing 2005:85). On anthropology of reform and revolution.

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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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Ain’t it a little late in the game to throw your hand in?

A post from 2012 describing the options.to closing a neighborhood school. As Little Steven says: “Ain’t it a little late in the game to throw your hand in?”

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags education, political economy, politics 2 Comments

fellow passengers in this world of ours

empathy and science

On the sorely-felt need for humility, empathy, and sympathy. On science, intelligence, Adam Smith, economics, Wealth of Nations, Theory of Moral Sentiments.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags education, empathy, human nature, political economy, politics, race, Tim Ingold 4 Comments

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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Teaching: Latin America & Caribbean 2012

Sanabria - Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean

Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean is less about “peoples and cultures” and more about processes at work across the Americas.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags cultural relativism, culture, gender, immigration, Jared Diamond, Latin America, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, race, race mixing, racism, sexuality, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 19 Comments
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