Enraptured Politics
If you think that these kinds of apocalyptic beliefs are “primitive” or “far-fetched,” think again. Americans seem to have a deep hunger for reading material about the End…
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Enraptured Politics
If you think that these kinds of apocalyptic beliefs are “primitive” or “far-fetched,” think again. Americans seem to have a deep hunger for reading material about the End…
Enraptured Politics
If you think that these kinds of apocalyptic beliefs are “primitive” or “far-fetched,” think again. Americans seem to have a deep hunger for reading material about the End…
Enraptured Politics
If you think that these kinds of apocalyptic beliefs are “primitive” or “far-fetched,” think again. Americans seem to have a deep hunger for reading material about the End…
Debt-Limit Chicken
Even though the possibility of a federal government default is an issue with potentially catastrophic consequences, GOP leaders in the House and the Senate seem to be playing…
Douglas Rogers, “The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals” (Cornell UP, 2009)
What are ethics? What are morals? How are they constituted, practiced, and regulated? How do they change over time? My own research is informed by these question; so is Douglas Rogers‘.…
Debt-Limit Chicken
Even though the possibility of a federal government default is an issue with potentially catastrophic consequences, GOP leaders in the House and the Senate seem to be playing…
Debt-Limit Chicken
Even though the possibility of a federal government default is an issue with potentially catastrophic consequences, GOP leaders in the House and the Senate seem to be playing…
Longing for Competence in a Land Where Nothing Works
The stunning capture and death of Osama bin Laden belies the widespread and ever-insistent notion that nothing works in America.
Longing for Competence in a Land Where Nothing Works
The stunning capture and death of Osama bin Laden belies the widespread and ever-insistent notion that nothing works in America.
Longing for Competence in a Land Where Nothing Works
The stunning capture and death of Osama bin Laden belies the widespread and ever-insistent notion that nothing works in America.
Thesis Defended. Issue #2: Public Anthropology
A few weeks have gone by, flowers have bloomed, the snow is gone, and I’m far less agitated then I was immediately after the thesis defence experience. In…
Media Failure and the Image of Africa
Framed by media reports, the image of Africa for Americans consists of tales of unending political riots, cases of fraudulent elections, and scenes of drug-crazed teenage soldiers burning…
Media Failure and the Image of Africa
Framed by media reports, the image of Africa for Americans consists of tales of unending political riots, cases of fraudulent elections, and scenes of drug-crazed teenage soldiers burning…
Anti Anti-Science
The culture of anti-science is creating an alternative universe of meaning in which scientific practices and findings, which tend to subvert fundamentalist social and cultural and political prin…
Anti Anti-Science
The culture of anti-science is creating an alternative universe of meaning in which scientific practices and findings, which tend to subvert fundamentalist social and cultural and political prin…
Anti Anti-Science
The culture of anti-science is creating an alternative universe of meaning in which scientific practices and findings, which tend to subvert fundamentalist social and cultural and political prin…
Anti Anti-Science
The culture of anti-science is creating an alternative universe of meaning in which scientific practices and findings, which tend to subvert fundamentalist social and cultural and political prin…
Thesis defended. Issue #1:representing anthropology & being cynical.
How was it? Brutal [even if it was accepted with minor revisions!] !!! I’ll do my best to summarise the experience, and issues raised, over the next few…