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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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What is Anthropology?

Ingold - Anthropology Education - What is Anthropology - Human Life

To the question of “What is Anthropology?”: Anthropology is a generous comparative inquiry into the conditions & potentials of human life.

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Categories What is Anthropology? Tags anthropology branding, cultural relativism, culture, education, human nature, introduction to anthropology, Tim Ingold 15 Comments

Culture, Culture, Everywhere

culture

With anthropologists saying many things about culture, is it any wonder the students and the public are confused?

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hope: the first anthropological emotion

Anthropological Hope

“The first anthropological emotion is hope” (Carole McGranahan) and also via Ingold, Trouillot, Lennon & Ono “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”

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Transformational Storytelling Anthropology

Ulysse - Transformational Storytelling Anthropology

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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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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Fetishizing Fieldwork on the Road to Essentialism

Anthropology Beyond Culture - Adieu Culture

Fieldwork and the ethnographic monograph invited closure around cultural wholes. Anthropology can defend the concept of culture while jettisoning the word.

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College is a Place

Meshing Tim Ingold’s “Against space” with Andrew Delbanco’s “College”: College is a place, not commodified space, of growth and movement, not retention.

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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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Epigenetics & Human Nature

Everett - Language The Cultural Tool - Epigenetics

Could epigenetics finally re-write the script about human nature? Maybe, but first we have to go over The Edge’s promotional tribute to Napoleon Chagnon.

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Dawkins versus Wilson: The Descent of Science

Dawkins versus Wilson: The Descent of Science

A Call for Blog Posts (CFBP) for an anthropological analysis of Richard Dawkins versus Edward Wilson on Social Conquest of the Earth.

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Sex, Gender, Sexuality

Warnke - After Identity - Gender is a Social Construction

Anthropology insists sex, gender, and sexuality include human activity and imagination–explaining why “gender is a social construction”

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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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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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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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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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