What Is ‘Race’?
Last weekend I was asked to give a Community Perspectives talk for Black History Month in Birmingham, entitled Black Beneath the Skin? The idea was to present some themes that intersect with…
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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 Anthropology, followed by mid-leve…
The Return of the Colonial
What logic connects Ferguson, Gaza and east Port of Spain? What cultural logics connect recent confrontations in Ferguson, Gaza, and east Port of Spain? The short answer is…
"I Want to Disturb My Neighbour": Stuart Hall and the Role of the Public intellectual.
By Doreen Gordon There have been many tributes to the Jamaican born thinker, Stuart Hall. He was remarkable for his ability to move between the worlds of the…
‘HBD’
There is a small but rather vocal group of people variously associated with the human sciences who declare that almost everything humans do is related to and primarily…
Whiteness Without Complex?
A couple of weeks ago I attended an event called ‘Color Without Complex‘, featuring a public conversation between image activist Michaela Angela Davis and ethnographer and publisher Dr. Ya…
A ‘White’ Anthropologist’s Manifesto, and a Call for Discussion
I am an English PhD researcher based in Paris, doing fieldwork in the US and Brazil. My research looks closely at current perceptions of identity, paradigms of human…
Introduction to Anthropology – 2014 – Entangling the Biological
Update: See the 2015 Introduction to Anthropology for more thoughts on this course and how the 2014 books worked. For spring 2014, another round of Introduction to Anthropology–another…
Anthropology Blogs 2014
Update 2015: This is the archive page for 2014 Anthropology Blogs. Click Anthropology Blogs 2015 for a current list and see also the Anthropology Blogs 2013 and 2012…
Cultural Anthropology 2013: Human Nature & Public Debates
It was a great honor and privilege to be invited to deliver the Cultural Anthropology overview for the Five Fields Update sponsored by the Society for Anthropology in…
Latin America and Caribbean Anthropology: Book Update
Book orders are due for my anthropology course titled “Peoples and Cultures of Latin America.” I checked back to the May 2013 Anthropologists Studying Immigration in the United…
Clickthrough Anthropology Blogs – October 2013
I keep all the Anthropology Blogs 2013 in a big Feedly subscription. Got behind and scrolled through over 400 articles in the last few weeks. These are the…
Confronting race and racism in anthropology
The latest issue of Anthropologies containing a collection of short pieces on race and racism is now available. Check out the table of contents below for the complete…