Property rights are important for economic exchange, but many governments don’t protect them. Private market organizations can fill this gap by providing an institutional structure to enforce…
Visit New Books in Anthropology for the podcast. There is something wrong with this RSS-feed. Lorenz, antropologi.info
There’s nothing wrong with teaching with enthusiasm. And yet if we concentrate so narrowly upon satisfying the consumer demands of the educational market, we replace scholarly rigor and…
Patricia G. Lange, California College of the Arts Mary Douglas, a key figure in the field of anthropology, once famously asserted that in small-scale societies, “the cycling…
Lecture from last Friday at SOAS in London; it starts around 30 minutes in to follow Hocart’s lead to comment on cosmology, governmentality, and anthropology.
Some figurines, like this one from the La Tolita-Tumaco culture, seem to blend gender characteristics from breasts to loincloths into a possible transgender or nonbinary figure. Museo Naciona…