Sahlins biography June 2023 update
Here’s a quick update regarding my work on the Marshall Sahlins biography up to 1 June 2023. I spent most of May not actually writing the biography, but…
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Sapir and Goldenweiser, White and Redfield
Investigating the biographies of Leslie White, Robert Redfield, Edward Sapir, and Alexander Goldenweiser. White studied with Goldenweiser in New York. Goldenweiser and Sapir were exact contempora…
Copious Free Time: Evans-Pritchard Edition
Here are some pieces that I want to read but almost definitely will not get around to. Perhaps you will have better luck? Sean Kingston has an amazing book…
Sahlin Biography May 2023 Update
As most of my friends and colleagues already know, the project I will take during my sabbatical in the (boreal) fall of 2023 is a biography of Marshall…
CRAW (or other acronyms)
I am lucky to have a prosperous and happy life, so I feel like I have little to complain about. However, during the crush of mid-career responsibilities it…
Now I am 22
As of 1 January, my blog will be 22 years old. I have achieved this significant landmark by continuing to pay my hosting fees and then not blogging.…
Bernard Cohn TOC
Bernard Cohn was an important anthropologist and historian of India. His 1987 volume An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays can be hard to find in digital.…
Life Last Week
via Wikimedia Commons Happy new year everyone! Here are Things That Happened in the last week or so: Celia Tichi is writing the history of the US through…
Life Last Fortnight
PNG Independence Day in 1975, via the National Archive of Australia. Time got away from me last week… here’s what I’ve been up to. It is necessary to…
Life Last Week
Via Marvel Strike Force The latest character to be introduced in Marvel Strike Force, the mobile game I play daily, is a Navajo weaver member of the Spiderverse.…
Life Last Week
Sarah Chinnery, via Trove I spent this week fascinated by the photography of Sarah Chinnery. Her images of PNG, famous anthropologists, flower still lives, street scenes, and friends…
Life Last Week
When you’re too busy to blog… link! This week I was consumed by a desire to filter and sort ebook offerings at University of Chicago Press’s 75% off…
Life Last Week
JFK’s coconut shell encased in plastic, via Wikimedia Commons After a bumpy election, James Marape returns for a second round as prime minister of PNG. I’m optimistic about…
Friday links
Murray Chapman, a geographer of the Pacific, passed away on the Big Island after a long career mentoring students, including many Pacific Islanders. The festschrift Oceanic Sojourns is…
The earliest origins of that one Margaret Mead quote
via goalcast Margaret Mead’s quote about how a small group of citizens can change the world can be found all over the Internet. But did she actually say…
Saturday Links
Several things happened this week: Finished my colleague John Rosa’s book Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case And The Culture Of History. Re-watched Redbelt for the first time in…
General Jerry Singirok’s memoir of the Sandline Affair is an inexpensive ebook
I normally don’t shill for Amazon — in fact I go out of my way to get my ebooks elsewhere. However in this case I think a plug…
Anthropology Biographies
Arjun AppaduraiRuth BenedictAllison DavisNatascha Döw-SchullKatherine DunhamMarvin HarrisEpeli Hau‘ofaZora Neale HurstonEdmund LeachClaude Lévi-StraussRobert LowieBronislaw MalinowskiMarcel MaussLewi…
JSTOR Books Directory
It’s very difficult to navigate the selection of publishers on JSTOR Books, so here are some links to common publishers which will save me (and perhaps you?) some…
Sahlins memorial piece in the JSO
I have a piece in memory of Marshall Sahlins in the latest issue of the Journal de la Société des Océanistes . This is a more personal piece…
NBN Podcast on Emalani Case’s Everything Ancient Once Was New
My August 2021 podcast at NBN was with Emalani Case on her book Everything Ancient Once Was New. Go check it out! credit: UH Press twitter
NBN podcast with Anthony Hazard on “Boasians at War”
My July podcast over at NBN was with Tony Hazard about his book Boasians at War. Have a listen.
New book chapter: Restraint Without Control
Very proud to have a new chapter out in the new edited volume The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects edited by Nick Bainton…
Book review: Lohmann’s “Haunted Pacific”
It’s the end of the summer so I have a variety of updates to make to keep up with all the things I’ve been publishing. First up is…