Turkey Votes
The Turkish referendum could extend President Erdoğan’s one-man rule. A piece of bicolored paper. On the left is printed EVET (YES), in black font over a white background,…
Tag: politics
Anthropology against white supremacy
In this post from the AAA’s Anthropology News, Luzilda Carrillo Arciniega offers “Six Ways Anthropologists Can Challenge White Supremacy” (27 March 2017). Create purposeful students Critique identi…
Anthropology against white supremacy
In this post from the AAA’s Anthropology News, Luzilda Carrillo Arciniega offers “Six Ways Anthropologists Can Challenge White Supremacy” (27 March 2017). Create purposeful students Critique identi…
Building Vocabularies for Everyday Discussions about "Race", racism, and Inclusion/exclusion
I was recently contacted by a student who had taken my Intercultural Competencies course last Fall. In their email, they asked for clarification on the following topic:Is it…
Building Vocabularies for Everyday Discussions about "Race", racism, and Inclusion/exclusion
I was recently contacted by a student who had taken my Intercultural Competencies course last Fall. In their email, they asked for clarification on the following topic:Is it…
What’s in a Word? The Importance of Recognizing the Etymology of Words
There have been a number of interesting posts lately about the ‘unsavory’ history of some everyday words and phrases in a growing discourse which argues that the use…
What’s in a Word? The Importance of Recognizing the Etymology of Words
There have been a number of interesting posts lately about the ‘unsavory’ history of some everyday words and phrases in a growing discourse which argues that the use…
Security Theatre
This phrase was used on the BBC world service a few times yesterday in reference to the ban on laptops and other devices from some airports on some…
The CIA and American Anthropology: Tracing Funding, Tracing Impacts
Sponsored by the Hardy Chair Lecture Series, the Hartwick College Department of Anthropology presented a public lecture by Dr. David H. Price, Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s…
CIA & Anthropology
The CIA and Anthropology Sponsored by the Hardy Chair Lecture Series, the Hartwick College Department of Anthropology presented a public lecture by Dr. David H. Price, Professor of…
The CIA and American Anthropology: Tracing Funding, Tracing Impacts
Sponsored by the Hardy Chair Lecture Series, the Hartwick College Department of Anthropology is pleased to present a public lecture by Dr. David H. Price, Professor of Anthropology…
Special Friday Edition: The Dutch Election, Domino Effects and Wilders’ Patriotic Spring
Both contributing bloggers on this website completed their PhD research in the Netherlands. Why? We were drawn to understand the influence of nationalistic Dutch politicians on the everyday…
Special Friday Edition: The Dutch Election, Domino Effects and Wilders’ Patriotic Spring
Both contributing bloggers on this website completed their PhD research in the Netherlands. Why? We were drawn to understand the influence of nationalistic Dutch politicians on the everyday…
Science, objectivity, race, gender
Have you heard of Space + Anthropology? This group blog through Medium.com brings together commentaries on the intersections between tech, culture, space, sci-fi, art, and anthropology. We alread…
Science, objectivity, race, gender
Have you heard of Space + Anthropology? This group blog through Medium.com brings together commentaries on the intersections between tech, culture, space, sci-fi, art, and anthropology. We alread…
Antonio De Lauri: Times of walls: The politics of fencing in the contemporary world
In his well-known poem “Mending Wall” (1914), Robert Frost effectively depicted the act of walling: Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling…
Saibaba ‘given’ life = court takes life from a nice guy in awful #repressive state anti #maoist trumped up show trial.
One of Indian Judicial Systems Most Shameful Decisions since 1947 : DU professor GN Saibaba and four others get life sentence for ‘Maoist links’ Democracy and Class Struggle…
#SoComplicatedSyllabus – Check it out and please contribute! by Deborah Levine
“I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably complex subject…Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated,” said Donald J. Trump on Monday, February 27, at a…
Why the “Big, Beautiful Wall” Is Doomed to Fail
The barriers that are already in place along hundreds of miles of the U.S.-Mexico border have done little to stem the flow of migrants into the United States.…
The myth of the trickle-down effect: What Guinea’s recent upheavals intimate about the country, by Joschka Philipps
The dry season’s dust has again settled on Conakry’s streets, aside from a few marks of ashes and rubble on the sides of the main avenues, everything seems…
Trump L’oeil
Anthropologists are addressing the mystery of President Donald Trump. They are trying to decipher what his victory portends and whether it is an anomaly (caused by Russian hacking,…
Review of Newfield’s The Great Mistake
I just sent in a review of Chris Newfield’s The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them to LATISS. The book’s out already; the review should be…
Pantomime terrorism hits Sweden
Here’s SCROTUS warning us of the pantomime terrorism situation in Sweden. The double speak bubbles capture his discourse with uncanny accuracy. People may think this is kids stuff,…
How the Tea Party Transformed American Politics
The Tea Party, after bursting onto the scene in 2009, has impacted not only national politics but also local and state governments—much to the surprise of many politicians,…