The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Mr. Trump is convincingly entertaining. He is not yet the president, but is trying to play one on television. Although he seems ignorant of the social, political and…
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The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Mr. Trump is convincingly entertaining. He is not yet the president, but is trying to play one on television. Although he seems ignorant of the social, political and…
The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Mr. Trump is convincingly entertaining. He is not yet the president, but is trying to play one on television. Although he seems ignorant of the social, political and…
Deirdre de la Cruz, “Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
There is no female religious figure so widely known and revered as the Virgin Mary. Filipino Catholics are especially drawn to Mama Mary and have a strong belief…
The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Yesterday, millions of American voters cast presidential primary ballots on Super Tuesday. In a political season that has confounded political pundits whose judgment has been consistently flawed, Don…
Enclosures
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to contribute a piece to Somatosphere’s series, The Ethnographic Case, edited by Drs. Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski. I love that site,…
Anthropologist John Bowen on Islam, Immigration, and What It Means to Be French
In 2015 alone, hundreds of thousands of migrants have fled war-torn Syria and elsewhere and made their way to Europe. While many Europeans have welcomed the refugees, some…
The Symbolic Violence of Choice
“Hasn’t he got any patriotism?” [Colonel Cathcart asked]. “Won’t you fight for your country?” Colonel Korn demanded. “Won’t you give up your life for Co…
The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Mr. Trump is convincingly entertaining. He is not yet the president, but is trying to play one on television. Although he seems ignorant of the social, political and…
The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Mr. Trump is convincingly entertaining. He is not yet the president, but is trying to play one on television. Although he seems ignorant of the social, political and…
The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Mr. Trump is convincingly entertaining. He is not yet the president, but is trying to play one on television. Although he seems ignorant of the social, political and…
The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Mr. Trump is convincingly entertaining. He is not yet the president, but is trying to play one on television. Although he seems ignorant of the social, political and…
Municipal versus Industrial Waste: Questioning the 3-97 ratio
We do not have an idea of the quantity of non-household solid waste produced in North America. When we do have ideas of (sub)quantities, we do not have…
The John Collier Jr. Award for Still Photography
is awarded periodically to an author or photographer whose publication, exhibit, website, or other multimedia production exemplifies the use of still photographs (both historical and contemporary) for…
Over ‘anders’ zijn als politicus
Foto: Marcel van Leeuwen door Menno van den Bos Begin dit jaar werd Khadija Arib voorzitter van de Tweede Kamer. De reacties op internet liepen uiteen. Pakweg de…
Boilerplate Clauses as Pragmatic Knowledge Practices #pragmatisms
Prompted by the invitation to participate in this thematic week on #pragmatisms for Allegra, I would like to share some reflections from my ethnographic reading of a concrete…
A poem for my Grandmother
Rest in Peace Bing, my paternal Grandmother, who passed away peacefully on Saturday just gone. I will always remember her at her happiest on the farm…
Making Knowledge Stick: Virtual Badges and Real Life Stickers
“Better than Digital Chocolate”—that’s what drew me in. It was the title of a post that found its way somehow across one of my social media feeds and…
A Presidential Affair
This article first appeared on the Stanford University Press blog. In January of 1998 news leaked that President Bill Clinton had engaged in ‘improper’ relations with White House intern Monica…
Cold Enough for Ya?
Every winter, on either the first or second cold snap, I hear the question “Cold enough for ya?” as I get on the bus, exit the Metro, or…
Human Trafficking: a growing epidemic
Some sources claim that one out of every 236 people becomes a victim of human trafficking. Even more startling, sources state that every 30 seconds another person becomes…
Christopher Bondy, “Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan” (Harvard Asia Center, 2015)
“You are a member of a minority group but do not know it. How is this possible?” Christopher Bondy’s new book explores this question in a study of…
The Absent Stone
Via Sandra Rozental, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, Mexico City The Absent Stone (2013) is a documentary film that combines contemporary ethnographic filmmaking, animation and a wide …
Knowing Economies, Doing Economies: How Sociologists of Markets Have Acknowledged the Legacy of #Pragmatism
In her new book, South Korean Civil Movement Organisations: Hope, Crisis and Pragmatism in Democratic Transition, Amy Levine shows us how a commitment to American pragmatism crosses disciplinary…