Silence and silos
Couple of years old now but well worth watching in full – Gillian Tett, Managing Editor of the FT in the US addresses the 2010 AAA on “Silence…
Anthropology Students Show their Creativity (and courage)
Set Them Free, They’ll Grow Wings I occasionally teach a course at the University of Alberta. It’s called Anthropology 207: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. The class…
Ruth Benedict y el concepto de modelo cultural
1. El concepto de modelo cultural (pattern of culture) Ruth Benedict entre dos indígenas pies negros (1939)National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Ins. En su libro Patterns of Culture (1934),…
Laurence Monnais, C. Michele Thompson, and Ayo Wahlberg, “Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012)
Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012) gives me hope for the future of edited volumes. Not only is it a fascinating…
Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown y el concepto de estructura social
1. Función social En su artículo “El concepto de función en la ciencia social” (1935), Radcliffe-Brown expone su concepción de esta idea clave en su plantemiento teórico y,…
Bronislaw Malinowski y el concepto de función
1. Función de la cultura La tesis central de Malinowski es que la cultura existe para satisfacer las necesidades biológicas, psicológicas y sociales del individuo. Grupo de hombres…
Religion and Faith-Full Politics
Religion defines spaces of good and evil, and helps us to deal with the absurdity of human pain and suffering. Is it any wonder that people devote so…
Religion And Faith-Full Politics
Religion defines spaces of good and evil, and helps us to deal with the absurdity of human pain and suffering. Is it any wonder that people devote so…
Religion and Faith-Full Politics
Religion defines spaces of good and evil, and helps us to deal with the absurdity of human pain and suffering. Is it any wonder that people devote so…
Religion And Faith-Full Politics
Religion defines spaces of good and evil, and helps us to deal with the absurdity of human pain and suffering. Is it any wonder that people devote so…
Franz Boas y el concepto de cultura
1. Cultura humanista versus cultura antropológica La palabra “cultura” tiene un significado distinto en la obra de Tylor que en la de Boas. La tabla 1 resume las…
Religion And Faith-Full Politics
Religion defines spaces of good and evil, and helps us to deal with the absurdity of human pain and suffering. Is it any wonder that people devote so…
Religion And Faith-Full Politics
Religion defines spaces of good and evil, and helps us to deal with the absurdity of human pain and suffering. Is it any wonder that people devote so…
Anthropology and the abduction of strategy
I gave a talk last week at a UK UPA event on ethnography in design and innovation. I somewhat subverted the intent of the session by not talking…
Information Meeting
On Friday, Feb. 23rd at 3:30, we will be hosting an information meeting in the Anthropology Laboratory (ECH 234) for all current and prospective students. This is an…
2012-13 Course Offerings
After a lengthy hiatus, I am back with some updates for our anthropology students here at St. Thomas University. We are currently preparing for registration for next year’s…
Joseph Kony and the Other Africa
So Africa is not a country and Africans don’t speak “African.” What about the most pernicious stereotype — that in the face of ongoing civil war and unending…
Joseph Kony and the Other Africa
So Africa is not a country and Africans don’t speak “African.” What about the most pernicious stereotype — that in the face of ongoing civil war and unending…
Joseph Kony and the Other Africa
So Africa is not a country and Africans don’t speak “African.” What about the most pernicious stereotype — that in the face of ongoing civil war and unending…
Joseph Kony and the Other Africa
So Africa is not a country and Africans don’t speak “African.” What about the most pernicious stereotype — that in the face of ongoing civil war and unending…
Joseph Kony and the Other Africa
So Africa is not a country and Africans don’t speak “African.” What about the most pernicious stereotype — that in the face of ongoing civil war and unending…
Joseph Kony and the Other Africa
So Africa is not a country and Africans don’t speak “African.” What about the most pernicious stereotype — that in the face of ongoing civil war and unending…