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Elizabeth Brumfiel, In Memoriam

Elizabeth Brumfiel

Dr. Elizabeth Brumfiel, Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology at Northwestern University and an inspiring scholar, will be greatly missed.

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Categories Anthropologists Tags culture, education, gender, human nature, Latin America, political economy, politics 8 Comments

Virginia Dominguez, Anthropology’s Challenge: We can be better

Virginia Dominguez, Anthropology's Challenge: We can be better

AAA president Virginia Dominguez provoked and challenged anthropologists in Montreal for the 2011 presidential address. We can be better.

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Categories What is Anthropology? Tags anthropology branding, political economy 11 Comments

Capitalism, Denisovans, Anthropology in Media

Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century

Free PowerPoint for “Anthropology and Moral Optimism”; Denisovan admixture update; AAA news and the 2011 Anthropology in Media Award.

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Categories Anthropology Blogs Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, education, evolution, genetics, political economy, politics, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 6 Comments

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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Categories Moral Optimism Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, human nature, occupy, planning, political economy, politics 18 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

Government Planning & Anthropology

Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform - Government Planning

Anthropology should stand against the ideologues insisting government planning is inherently flawed.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags capitalism, human nature, planning, political economy, politics, Sidney Mintz 6 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

Are Perceptions of Anti-White Bias Increasing?

Anti-White Bias Graph 2011

2011 article “Is Anti-White Bias a Problem?” revealed a delusion of perceived anti-white bias, but researchers deceptively argued it was new or increasing.

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Do anthropologists study everything?

Toward an Anthropology of Women - Anthropology is Necessary

Anthropologists don’t study everything. Anthropology studies important issues, in context, and gets real data. Anthropology is necessary.

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Categories What is Anthropology? Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, David Brooks, Eric Wolf, evolution, gender, political economy, Sidney Mintz 4 Comments

Why do we celebrate killing?

To challenge “Why we celebrate killing” anthropology must emphasize political economy, going beyond idea of instincts shaped by culture.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, evolution, human nature, political economy, Tim Ingold 9 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
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