How Our Contradictions Make Us Human and Inspire Creativity

The fissures created in our experiences between our principles and actions can be a source of profound creativity and reflection.
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Unsung Native Collaborators in Anthropology

Anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Margaret Mead could not have achieved success without their local assistants’ insider knowledge and extensive labor. ✽ Growing up a Brown girl…

Post date 13th October 2022
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Racial Realities

When I tell my students that there is no such thing as “race” (meaning biological race), I wait for the blowback. I know it is coming. “Well if…

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The Emotional Toll of Death in Syria: Revolution to Toppling

After more than eight years of no contact, I conducted a video call with a former non-influential officer from an […] The post The Emotional Toll of Death…

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Nostalgia for a field Christmas

Image courtesy of shanzmataz. It’s the first time I’ve been away from Christmas in Trinidad since I started fieldwork there in 2011 (oh wait, I was home briefly…

Post date 21st December 2015
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