Author: Keith Hart

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE         ANCESTORS Chapter 1&…

Keith Hart           Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes (Berghahn, Spring 2022) Keith Hart’s Self in the World is the story of a brilli…

Endorsements Table of contents Research Features interview

I have opened up a new project to disseminate my work and interests. This link is to the first page. There will be pages on other themes —…

David Graeber died unexpectedly from a massive haemorrhage of the pancreas in Venice on September 2nd of this year. Obituaries summarize the life of someone who is no…

Compiled for a special part-issue on my work of the Revista Sociologia & Antropologia Rio de Janeiro, 2019.   Published books and articles The Memory Bank: money in an…

A betting man’s reflections on money[1] Keith Hart Abstract Part 1 describes my life as a betting man, starting out as a teenager in Manchester and achieving some…

The real economy? The challenge of dialectical method[1]  Keith Hart[2] Abstract This blatantly introspective essay seeks to trace a path from the postulation of an informal economy as…

Jairus Banaji has posted a beautiful memoir in Facebook showing the linguistic and practical history of Arab mediation between he ancient Greeks and 13th century Venice with reference…

In September 2103, Alice Sala and Gregoire Mayor, from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland and on behalf of the multimedia French-language journal ethnographiques.org, came to South Africa to…

The period since 1945 saw a revolution in world society which, by the 1990s, had turned into widespread popular emancipation from the repressive state controls installed during the…

Summary A three-part interview with Keith Hart by Ryan Anderson on Savage Minds Blog Part 1 The Open Access (OA) movement is one of resistance to the privatization…

Talkin’ World War III Blues Bob Dylan One time ago a crazy dream came to me I dreamt I was walkin’ into World War Three I went to…

The true history of British social anthropology’s origins, seen through the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres strait (CAETS) [1] Three centuries of anthropology. Between evolution and…

Two books published in 2002, The Best of Anthropology Today and Exotic No More, taken together, provide a chance to find out what anthropologists are up to these days. The…

The Research Institute of Anthropology of the East China Normal University offers full scholarships for an all-English language Master’s program in Anthropology. The program is two years long,…

Sir James Steuart was a Jacobite exile who brought the term ‘political economy’ from Continental Europe to Britain. Almost a decade before The Wealth of Nations he published…

My old friend’s speech for January 28th this year. “Burns is one of the reasons I am proud to be a Scot, a socialist, a nationalist, and an…

A selection 1982-1999 Various places Refuge (Paresseux nerveux) A short history of knowledge Ishmael at the masthead (View from a balcony, Jamaica) One glad look Nuclear reaction i…

A selection 1982-1999 Various places Refuge (Paresseux nerveux) A short history of knowledge Ishmael at the masthead (View from a balcony, Jamaica) One glad look Nuclear reaction i…