Purpose of Living Anthropologically
In a time of global convulsion, I’m rethinking the purpose of Living Anthropologically as a blog and website. And yes, that image up there is borrowed from the…
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2019 American Anthropology Master’s Career Survey
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Nacirema Thinking
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” has endured as a first-day favorite for Introduction to Anthropology courses, and is read far beyond…
Nacirema Thinking
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” has endured as a first-day favorite for Introduction to Anthropology courses, and is read far beyond…
Anthropology on Immigration
Stand with Migrants Against Fascism In 2011 the American Anthropological Association (AAA) issued a General Statement on Immigration. This 2011 statement was a testimony to a need for…
Anthropology as Open Marriage
A New Life Style for Anthropologists This blog-post reproduces my comment on Paul Shankman’s “The Public Anthropology of Margaret Mead: Redbook, Women’s Issues, and the 1960s” publis…
Starbucks Enlightenment
Image credit: “Starbucks, Race and ‘Corporate’ Anthropology,” CFM Public Affairs Blog (March 2015). Is Anthropology better than Starbucks? In late March 2018, anthropology rais…
Conditions & Potentials of Human Life
What is Anthropology? In each generation, the question of “What is Anthropology?” must be answered anew. In 2017, Tim Ingold’s Anthropology and/as Education provides a summation of a…
Anthropology Matters #AmAnth17
Open Anthropology Matters The October issue of Open Anthropology promotes material linked to the 2017 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Anthropology Matters (November …
Hackonomy
On Monday, April 17 at 7:30pm in Anderson Center for the Arts at Hartwick College, award-winning e-commerce marketing executive and television personality Bonin Bough will discuss “Hackonomy: Le…
Hackonomy
April 2017 at Hartwick College featured a lecture by award-winning e-commerce marketing executive and television personality Bonin Bough. Bough discussed “Hackonomy: Lessons from the Largest Bra…
Hackonomy
Hackonomy April 2017 at Hartwick College featured a lecture by award-winning e-commerce marketing executive and television personality Bonin Bough. Bough discussed “Hackonomy: Lessons from the L…
Relevant Teaching for the 21st Century
Defending Anthropology 101 and the Mega-Class In February 2016, I was honored to participate in several sessions around the theme “Defending Anthropology 101 and the Mega-Class: Relevant Teachin…
Defending Anthropology 101 and the Mega-Class: Relevant Teaching for the 21st Century
On 4-5 February 2016, honored to participate in several sessions around the theme “Defending Anthropology 101 and the Mega-Class: Relevant Teaching for the 21st Century.” The idea of…
Culture, Culture, Everywhere
Just as I was preparing to teach Cultural Anthropology, two posts about culture came out on powerhouse anthropology blogs. On Savage Minds, Alex Golub reviews The Asian American…
Anthropology Major Jobs: Advice for Undergraduate Majors
Please help a recent high school graduate who desperately wants to be an anthropology major but worries about the anthropology major jobs after graduation: Hi Jason, I’ve recently…
Anthropology is Taking Over the World
The first clue that anthropology is taking over the world is in the March 2015 issue of American Anthropologist, where Virginia Dominguez writes that she is Taking Over…
Transformational Storytelling Anthropology
Modified transcript of discussant comments for panel on Anthropology and Storytelling at the 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Many thanks to Coralynn Davis, Carole McG…
“humans just like us” (Michel-Rolph Trouillot 2003:137)
Reading Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s final chapter in Global Transformations, “Making Sense: The Fields in which We Work” and reflecting on what I’ve been teaching in Cultural Anth…
Teaching Cultural Anthropology (via a quote from Tim Ingold, Making, 2013:13)
Fall 2014, teaching Cultural Anthropology. The Hartwick College Anthropology format for teaching cultural anthropology is to begin with a four-fields Introduction to Anthropology, followed by mid-leve…
Jared Diamond and Future Public Anthropology
It was an honor and pleasure to be discussant for Margaret Mead and Jared Diamond: Past Publics, Current Engagements, organized by Alex Golub for the 2013 American Anthropological…
Introduction to Anthropology – 2014 – Entangling the Biological
Update: See the 2015 Introduction to Anthropology for more thoughts on this course and how the 2014 books worked. For spring 2014, another round of Introduction to Anthropology–another…
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,…