The Eye of the Needle: On jaguars and transformation
The path was too dangerous: she might encounter the enemy. She crawled through a maze of roots and vines and branches that clawed and grappled from her blind…
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The Real News Network two-part interview with Robert Kelley on Iran’s Nuclear Program November 12-13, 2013 PART 2
The Real News Network two-part interview with Robert Kelley on Iran’s Nuclear Program November 12-13, 2013 Part II:Is Iran Being Transparent About Its Nuclear Program? More at The…
The Real News Network two-part interview with Robert Kelley on Iran’s Nuclear Program November 12-13, 2013 PART 1
The Real News Network two-part interview with Robert Kelley on Iran’s Nuclear Program November 12-13, 2013 To see a video of both interviews Please see the URL’s below…
Too-Close Encounters: The Mashco-Piro and the dilemmas of isolation and contact
In late August a Peruvian indigenous federation circulated remarkable video footage showing about a hundred isolated (so-called “uncontacted”) Mashco-Piro Indians just across the river from a Piro ind…
Too-Close Encounters: The Mashco-Piro and the dilemmas of isolation and contact
In late August a Peruvian indigenous federation circulated remarkable video footage showing about a hundred isolated (so-called “uncontacted”) Mashco-Piro Indians just across the river from a Piro ind…
Too-Close Encounters: The Mashco-Piro and the dilemmas of isolation and contact
In late August a Peruvian indigenous federation circulated remarkable video footage showing about a hundred isolated (so-called “uncontacted”) Mashco-Piro Indians just across the river from a Piro ind…
Diversity in Action: Minneapolis Elects Its First Hmong, Somali and Hispanic City Council Members
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-o-beeman/diversity-in-action-minneapolis_b_4247995.html Diversity in Action: Minneapolis Elects Its First Hmong, Somali and Hispanic City Council Members William O….
Why Iran Nuclear Talks Failed and Why They Will Get Tougher (Gareth Porter–Truthout)
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19998-why-the-nuclear-talks-failed-and-why-they-will-get-tougher Why Iran Nuclear Talks Failed and Why They Will Get Tougher Wednesday, 13 November 2…
Music to work by
Bennett Konesni studied the music and songs of farmers in the Mwanza region of Northern Tanzania in 2005. Here is the video he made after his stay –…
Affective Hegemonies
I wrote this review essay about the book Posthegemonyby my friend and colleague Jon Beasley-Murray over three years ago, for the book launch we had at UBC. I…
Affective Hegemonies
I wrote this review essay about the book Posthegemonyby my friend and colleague Jon Beasley-Murray over three years ago, for the book launch we had at UBC. I…
Ken MacLeish, “Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community”
Ken MacLeish offers an ethnographic look at daily lives and the true costs borne by soldiers, their families, and communities, in his new book Making War at Fort…
The world war of the intellect
A snippet from my dissertation chapter on the French university strike of 2009. Nicholas Sarkozy was elected President of the Republic on May 6, 2007, and took office…
Culture and utility
Re-reading a chapter in Marshall Sahlins’ Culture and Practical Reason, Le Penseé Bourgoisie today I could have cited multiple chunks of though-provoking writing. Instead, here’s a simple …
Anthropology and the State during Globalization
What’s happening with the anthropology of the state? It seemed that in the 1990s, anthropology was breaking from the ethnographic trilogy of one fieldworker, one village, one year,…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
On racist racelessness in Europe
Consider these two scenes: 1) Recently talking to a graduate of a top-tier British university: I [concerned]: “This summer an Italian Senator referred to the black Minister of…
Sienna R. Craig, “Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] Two main questions frame Sienna R. Craig’s beautifully written and carefully argued new book about Tibetan medical practices and cultures: How is…