An Indefinite Marriage? Culture and/vs. Social Closure in a Romanian City
Those who work on power and its dimensional and disciplinary ramifications are the privileged audience of this post. Apologies to all others, but what I want to do…
Tag: books
Culture and utility
Re-reading a chapter in Marshall Sahlins’ Culture and Practical Reason, Le Penseé Bourgoisie today I could have cited multiple chunks of though-provoking writing. Instead, here’s a simple …
Good News Roundup
There is way too much stuff going on in my life and work these days. Most of it is really good stuff, but it is hard to keep…
Who Do We Write For?
As anthropologists, who do we write for? Scholarly articles are typically written for one’s fellow academics. But what about books? Book-length ethnographies are the cornerstone of anthropology. These…
What are traditional societies for?
From a great review of Jared Diamond’s book The World until Yesterday, by Wade Davis in The Guardian “Traditional societies do not exist to help us tweak our…
What is happening to Europe (or to its Nation-States)?
Gustave Moreau – “Europe et le taureau” (1869)
What is happening to Europe (or to its Nation-States)?
Gustave Moreau – “Europe et le taureau” (1869)
What is happening to Europe (or to its Nation-States)?
Gustave Moreau – “Europe et le taureau” (1869)
What is happening to Europe (or to its Nation-States)?
Gustave Moreau – “Europe et le taureau” (1869)
Book Review: Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations - Edited by Melissa Cefkin It is now safe to say that the introduction to the…