Biden-Harris: Unity Over Division
I endorse the Biden-Harris ticket for the United States presidency. I believe this is more than a personal preference–it is informed by …
Race, Racism, & Protesting Anthropology
In October 2015, Sallie Han and I put out our third co-edited issue of Open Anthropology, “Race, Racism, and Protesting Anthropology.” The …
#AmplifyBlackVoices: US White Supremacy & Anthropology
In my blog post on the Purpose of Living Anthropologically, I wrote that I wanted to be mindful of critiques of anthropology …
Purpose of Living Anthropologically
In a time of global convulsion, I’m rethinking the purpose of Living Anthropologically as a blog and website. And yes, that image …
Coronavirus & Academia
It’s 3 May 2020 in the United States. People say we are past the peak coronavirus surge, but it remains a slow-moving …
Latin America & Caribbean Anthropology 2020
This was a January 2020 Anthropology course using the second edition of The Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean by Harry …
Trade
Issues of trade have come to renewed attention, as the global trading system has been rocked by upended agreements and cries for …
Impeachment & Anthropology
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2019 American Anthropology Master’s Career Survey
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Women Speak
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> Open Anthropology on Gender, Language, & Power Following the March 2019 Open Anthropology …
White Anthropology Blogs
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> As an inaugural post for the Discuss White Privilege section, this transcribes an …
Boundaries, Borders, Walls
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Teaching Latin America 2019
In January 2019, I teach “Peoples and Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean” as a one-month anthropology course at Hartwick College. …
Antonio Delgado will get the job done for NY-19
As you may have heard, mid-term elections are November 6 in the United States. My district is New York 19, which anthropologist …
Anthropology in Brazil
Antropologia. Uma Introdução Professor Roberto Jarry Richardson sent me this excellent question: I am a Brazilian professor with a Ph.D. in International …
Farmers & Foodies of the Future (FFF)
Update August 2018: This guest post by Robert Seguin on “Farmers and Foodies of the Future” was originally written in August 2015. …
Anthropology & US Immigration
Update July 2018: This post was originally written in 2013 in an attempt to bring an anthropological perspective on studying immigration to …
Nacirema Thinking
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” has endured as a first-day favorite for Introduction to Anthropology …
Nacirema Thinking
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” has endured as a first-day favorite for Introduction to Anthropology …
Anthropology on Immigration
Stand with Migrants Against Fascism In 2011 the American Anthropological Association (AAA) issued a General Statement on Immigration. This 2011 statement was …
Anthropology on Immigration
Standing with Migrants In 2011 the American Anthropological Association (AAA) issued a General Statement on Immigration. This 2011 statement was a testimony …
Becoming White
Policing Whiteness Karen Brodkin’s 1998 book, How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America was a crucial …
Venezuela & Anthropology
Will Venezuela Recover? As Venezuela holds elections on 20 May 2018, questions of “Will Venezuela recover?” or “Will Venezuela collapse?” arise. When …
Anthropology as Open Marriage
A New Life Style for Anthropologists This blog-post reproduces my comment on Paul Shankman’s “The Public Anthropology of Margaret Mead: Redbook, Women’s …