Steven Sampson: Angry white males as suffering subjects

“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.&#8…

Don Kalb: HAU not: For David Graeber and the anthropological precariate

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When HAU was launched, my grad students at Central European University were celebrating. Open access! Finally, a breach in the wall that separated the haves from the have-nots.…

Post date 26th June 2018
Post author By Focaal Web Editor
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Maddalena Gretel Cammelli and Jonathan Friedman: PC Worlds: Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony

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Maddalena Gretel Cammelli interviews Jonathan Friedman on his new book, PC Worlds. A version of this interview has also been published in Italian on Il Lavoro Culturale. MGC:…

Post date 17th May 2018
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Another Life

The Familiar Strange

As anthropologist Kirin Narayan put to readers of her book Alive in the Writing, the creative process of ethnographic writing can grow from ‘the impulse to find company…

Post date 20th June 2018
Post author By Julia Brown
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What is Anthropology? A Summary Review of the Second Edition by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

The Familiar Strange

I found it helpful when Eriksen drew the line in the sand about the fundamental questions that anthropology concerns itself with. Here’s his Big Three: 1) What is…

Post date 1st March 2020
Post author By Jodie-Lee Trembath
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