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Christina Lauren Quigley , November 24th, 2022
Ritual Shrine Offerings Among the Exotic Nacirema Tribe While it may seem that anthropologists have documented the most exotic rituals across the globe, the strangest rituals are still…
Christina Lauren Quigley , November 12th, 2022
Thailand’s most famous and beloved writer– Rong Wongsawan’s work has been translated, edited and published in English for the first time. For admirers of Thailand and its culture,…
Christina Lauren Quigley , October 7th, 2022
English is the dominant global language of the world, it is the language of power, and control. But it is not the only language, and different people have…
thenarcissisticanthropologist , August 30th, 2017
I used to think that Americans like me who had a strong point of view on topics related to positive social change all had some sort of elevated…
Carie Little Hersh , June 8th, 2017
8 Labels I Never Want to Hear Again There are several words that have gained in popularity over the last few years that I don’t ever want to…
Grant , May 18th, 2017
[This essay first appeared in Medium. It has been lightly edited for presentation here.] In the world of documentary filmmaking, it feels like there’s the era “Before Ken…
Carie Little Hersh , May 4th, 2017
With the recent increase in folks’ throwing shade and swastikas on other people’s ethnicities, I thought I’d take a moment to remind us all that racial purity is…
thenarcissisticanthropologist , December 31st, 2016
I know what everyone has been thinking as we look gleefully forward to the end of 2016, with a desire to put the social and political turmoil behind us…
Carie Little Hersh , December 5th, 2016
Fake News and the End of Facts I recently had the pleasure (?) of engaging in a fruitless debate on social media with a friend of a friend….
Carie Little Hersh , November 29th, 2016
A Family Portrait My family is super white. We love brunch at IKEA, we have varying relationships with rhythm, and we feel slightly guilty about everything. Aside from…
Carie Little Hersh , November 3rd, 2016
I had no idea I was singing the saddest song about motherhood of all time. It all started when I became curious about a lullaby my grandmother used…
Carie Little Hersh , October 14th, 2016
Just… no. It’s that time of year again, when millions of Americans hit the streets dressed as terrifying celebrities, food items, and ethically questionable depictions of others’ cul…
Carie Little Hersh , September 29th, 2016
Welcome to the (sur)reality that is the American election of 2016. The latest in a series of Perplexing Statements that People Believe Despite Immeasurable Evidence to the Contrary…
Grant , August 24th, 2016
Yesterday, the Charlie Rose Show repeated interviews with comics Billy Eichner, Amy Pohler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, and Seth Meyers. A couple of comments jumped out….
Carie Little Hersh , August 19th, 2016
Elaine Aron’s book The Highly Sensitive Person was like my own personal Da Vinci Code—riveting, compelling, and totally solved a mystery about myself I didn’t know existed. My…
Carie Little Hersh , August 4th, 2016
In the wake of several brutal and unwarranted police shootings of black men and women, and the subsequent retaliation against innocent police officers, politicians across the country have…
Carie Little Hersh , July 15th, 2016
After the horrific mass murder in June focusing on the LGBTQ community at an Orlando club, the only thing worse than the massacre has been the thread of…
Carie Little Hersh , June 2nd, 2016
At dinner one night, I made two fatal social errors in rapid succession. First, during casual conversation with two good friends, I began talking about American culture. Not…
Carie Little Hersh , May 4th, 2016
With Donald Trump defending the size of his hands, Ted Cruz dropping out of the race the week after recruiting former opponent Fiorina as a running mate, Hillary…
Grant , April 27th, 2016
Ethnography has grown in the last couple of decades from a moody, friendless method in the social sciences to the bell of the business ball. But clearly it has…