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 …
Upsetting the Canon
Teaching anthropology offers a site for critical intervention. So what should we be reading with our students? A critical and reflexive anthropology …
Starbucks Enlightenment
Image credit: “Starbucks, Race and ‘Corporate’ Anthropology,” CFM Public Affairs Blog (March 2015). Is Anthropology better than Starbucks? In late March 2018, …
What should you do?
(if the United States collapses, that is) This series has been examining the question of When will the United States collapse? The …
When will the United States collapse?
As of 4 April 2018, I had been working on a draft of this post on “when will the United States collapse” …
Teaching Trouillot
Contemporary Anthropological Theory This guest post on “Teaching Trouillot in Contemporary Anthropological Theory” is by Elizabeth Ferry, Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis …
Teaching Trouillot
Contemporary Anthropological Theory This guest post on “Teaching Trouillot in Contemporary Anthropological Theory” is by Elizabeth Ferry, Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis …
Anthropology’s Unfinished Revolution
The Discovery of Sidney Mintz I delivered this paper at the 2016 meetings of the American Anthropological Association. The panel was titled …
Anthropology’s Unfinished Revolution
The Discovery of Sidney Mintz I delivered this paper at the 2016 meetings of the American Anthropological Association. The panel was titled …
The Discovery of Sidney Mintz: Anthropology’s Unfinished Revolution
This is the text of a paper delivered at the 2016 meetings of the American Anthropological Association. The panel was titled “The …
This is the text of a paper delivered at the 2016 meetings of the American Anthropological Association. The panel was titled “The …
Coalition of the Diverse: Racially Mixed Crowd in the November Rain
United States, November 2016. There was a lot of ugliness, not a lot of beauty. A lot of hate, not a lot …
Coalition of the Diverse
Racially Mixed Crowd in the November Rain United States, November 2016. There was a lot of ugliness, not a lot of beauty. …
Racially Mixed Crowd in the November Rain: Coalition of the Diverse
United States, November 2016. There’s been a lot of ugliness, not a lot of beauty. A lot of hate, not a lot …
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 4: Gina Athena Ulysse on “Race: The Power of an Illusion”
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize …
Anthropology Boycott: Supporting BDS, Voting Against AAA proposal
After a long time thinking about it, I’ve decided that I support the BDS Movement for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. …
Anthropology Boycott: Supporting BDS but Voting Against
After a long time thinking about it, I’ve decided that I support the BDS Movement for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. …
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, …
How Did Anthropology Begin?
In fall 2015, I adopted the new Robert Welsch and Luis Vivanco textbook Cultural Anthropology (see previous discussion of Hartwick Anthropology Courses). …
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 …
hope: the first anthropological emotion
During the comments from the Anthropology and Storytelling panel at the #AAA2014 meetings: “The first anthropological emotion is hope” (Carole McGranahan). As …
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 …
“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 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 …