Fractocurrentism and the anthropologist of the future (TAOTF) …
Will be a world view Will reconceptualise disciplinary thinking and skill sets TAOTF will be better known TAOTF will probably do fiewldwork at home, locally or … –…
Tag: politics
Barack Obama names two new National Monuments important to Native Americans
from The Huffington Post: The White House designated two new national monuments on Wednesday, one in Utah and the other in Nevada, that will protect important Native American…
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 Legacies of Sidney Mintz: Discovering…
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 Legacies of Sidney Mintz: Discovering…
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 Legacies of Sidney Mintz: Discovering Political…
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 Legacies of Sidney Mintz: Discovering Political…
Reading Lists for Decolonizing Anthropology & Beyond
One of the ways that anthropologists and other scholars have responded to recent world events — from the systemic issues underlying the Black Lives Matter movement and Standing…
Reading Lists for Decolonizing Anthropology & Beyond
One of the ways that anthropologists and other scholars have responded to recent world events — from the systemic issues underlying the Black Lives Matter movement and Standing…
Reading Lists for Decolonizing Anthropology & Beyond
One of the ways that anthropologists and other scholars have responded to recent world events — from the systemic issues underlying the Black Lives Matter movement and Standing…
Electoral College and the Constitutional Duty to Block Trump
Update June 2017: This post was written at a time when the Electoral College should have exercised a duty that they did not. Although the evidence was available…
Electoral College: A Duty to Block Trump from Presidency
For most of its modern existence, the US Electoral College has been a mere formality, a procedural endorsement of each state’s popular vote winner. However, the original intent…
Electoral College: A Duty to Block Trump from Presidency
For most of its modern existence, the US Electoral College has been a mere formality, a procedural endorsement of each state’s popular vote winner. However, the original intent…
Constitutional Duty to Block Trump
Electoral College Update June 2017: This post was written at a time when the Electoral College should have exercised a duty that they did not. Although the evidence…
Electoral College: A Duty to Block Trump from Presidency
For most of its modern existence, the US Electoral College has been a mere formality, a procedural endorsement of each state’s popular vote winner. However, the original intent…
“The Value of Social Media” at the AAA conference
Daniel Miller talking at the AAA conference. Photo by Nell Haynes. From the Why We Post Team, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, and Daniel Miller attended the American Anthropological…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 13: Noah Tamarkin on thinking with South African Activists and Artists
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 12: Kevin G. Karpiak on the critical potential of an anthropology of police
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
Doing anthropology everywhere
In August we had posted about anthropologists doing work in dangerous contexts, highlighting the imprisonment of Dr. Homa Hoodfar in Iran. While Hoodfar has been released, her story…
Doing anthropology everywhere
In August we had posted about anthropologists doing work in dangerous contexts, highlighting the imprisonment of Dr. Homa Hoodfar in Iran. While Hoodfar has been released, her story…
Alliances not self promotion. Bataille would already have joined
Dear comrades on my news feed, Am sure you probably already will have seen this but I’m sending it out in place of any comment about either Trimp…
After*
(Tony Webster, cc by 2.0) I switch the radio on and dial through the stations. Morning news on CBC, the francophone station, and then — the station with the tones. The…
Donald Trump Elected President – Is it the 1970s?
by Dinah Rajak The more I think about, the more I think we might need a cultural revolution… Donald Trump is an anachronism – a pastiche of some…
On voting
Following the US election result, many people are asking just how all the pollsters got it wrong. Not just wrong, but so very wrong in anticipating the victory…
The Anthropology of Trump: turning an ethnographic lens on Trumpland
Way back in March we posted about The Anthropology of Trump: It’s getting political in here (16 March 2016). In this earlier post, Jenn reviewed Paul Stoller’s analysis…