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focaal_admin , January 13th, 2022
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology is a book that fizzes with a multiplicity of ideas; so many that they seem on occasion to overgrow the boundaries of the…
focaal_admin , January 10th, 2022
Chair: Alpa Shah Discussants: Keir Martin & Ayça Çubukçu Much to his frustration, David was often labelled ‘the anarchist anthropologist’. Aware of the way the term ‘anarchist’ was…
Ira Eue , January 10th, 2022
Die Debatte über die Ausstellung von kolonialer Raubkunst stellt den Sinn ethnologischer Museen in Frage. Dabei gerät eine Sache außer Acht: Solche Begegnungen können vielfäl…
Sarah Soliz , January 6th, 2022
The Dubin Studio under construction in 1997 (left) and after its completion (right). …
Max Liboiron , December 30th, 2021
I get a lot of emails asking how I started the lab, how junior scholars might start labs, and how to transform existing labs. This post outlines how…
focaal_admin , December 22nd, 2021
A review article on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Allen Lane, 2021. The Dawn of Everything’s central idea…
focaal_admin , December 21st, 2021
Let me begin by saying “this is a thought experiment”; a phrase David often used, and I find useful. In this talk I’d like to propose an approach…
focaal_admin , December 20th, 2021
Although historically and geographically diverse, but sharing religious cultural roots, contemporary Sri Lanka and Thailand are both characterised by authoritarianism. This parallel cannot be explain…
focaal_admin , December 20th, 2021
David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years was published in summer 2011. In August-September of that year, he took part in the first New York City General Assembly…
Ira Eue , December 20th, 2021
After four years of studying social and cultural anthropology at LMU Munich, my internship with Dr. Hilke Thode-Arora, curator of the Oceania department at the Museum Fünf Kontinente…
focaal_admin , December 16th, 2021
Chair: Alpa Shah Discussants: Keith Hart & Maka Suarez In 2011, David published Debt: The First 5000 Years, a book that would establish him as one of the major…
focaal_admin , December 13th, 2021
Image 1: Book Cover. The last two decades in anthropology would have been dramatically less exciting without David Graeber. Given David’s prominent association with the Occupy rebellions and…
Sarah Soliz , December 9th, 2021
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, 2020–2021 SAR Anne Ray Intern Walking toward the crowd, I felt a burn of energy in the air. People w…
focaal_admin , December 9th, 2021
I confess that the first time I met David I was not impressed. It was in 2006 at a conference in Halle. David gave a 50-minute summary of…
focaal_admin , December 7th, 2021
Image 1: Book cover of Lost People David Graeber’s Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar began life as his University of Chicago doctoral thesis….
The Familiar Strange , December 5th, 2021
I am hospitalized while I am typing this, waiting to be seen for cervical vertebral disease, which is causing a daily numbing sensation in both hands. The wait…
focaal_admin , December 2nd, 2021
‘Value’ is the one central themes that runs throughout and conjoins all of David Graeber’s writings. This week focuses on his first book, whose original title, eventually flipped…
Max Liboiron , December 2nd, 2021
In partnership with the Nunatsiavut Government, we are recruiting a Master’s student to work on the project Wild food movements and contaminants of concern in Imappivut.
Max Liboiron , December 1st, 2021
CLEAR is hiring two part-time research assistants to help study Indigenous and decolonial quantitative methodologies.
Grant Otsuki , November 30th, 2021
At Anne-Wil Harzing’s Publish or Perish: When comparing Google Scholar and ISI citation scores, the Business academic has six times as many citations in Google Scholar than in…
focaal_admin , November 22nd, 2021
Image 1: Social distancing signs. Photo by ©Acabashi CC-BY-SA 4.0 To understand the massive world-disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic we need a sociology of complicity. Since the different…
The Familiar Strange , November 21st, 2021
Cara Delevingne’s ‘Peg the Patriarchy’ moment from the 2021 Met Gala undoubtedly missed the mark. Delevingne and Dior both failed to credit the original creator of the slogan,…
Ira Eue , November 20th, 2021
I am from El Alto, one of the youngest cities in Bolivia, not only because of its recent creation (1985), but also because at least 45% of its…
clearstaff , November 19th, 2021
When it comes to “decolonizing” Anthropology, diversity or decolonial initiatives often change very little or nothing at all. I suggest that anthropology is currently facing the dilemma of…