#TheoryThursday
TW: Discussions of Racism Defining ethnocentrism Recognizing and addressing ethnocentrism is one of the most important parts of anthropological practice. Being ethnocentric involves evaluati…
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#TheoryThursday
TW: Discussions of Racism Defining ethnocentrism Recognizing and addressing ethnocentrism is one of the most important parts of anthropological practice. Being ethnocentric involves evaluati…
#TheoryThursday
TW: Discussions of Racism Defining ethnocentrism Recognizing and addressing ethnocentrism is one of the most important parts of anthropological practice. Being ethnocentric involves evaluati…
anthro in the news 8/18/15
“Blood coming out of her wherever” National Public Radio (U.S.) carried a piece about cross-cultural attitudes toward menstruation, noting that while negative attitudes about menstruating women ar…
Gina Athena Ulysse on Sandra Bland
In a piece on Africa is a Country titled “Meditation on Sandra Bland’s self-possession, The Beatles and neo-Black codes of conduct,“ anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse reflects on Sandra…
An Addendum by Patricia Sunderland: Witnessing and Speaking Charleston
On the evening of June 17th, the murder of nine African Americans took place at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. My Rachel Dolezal post was…
Manissa Maharawal: Shut it down: Notes on the #blacklivesmatter protests – Part 2
Part 2. Breaking windows and broken windows policing: “Do we have the same level of outrage when a young black person gets killed as we do when a…
I Will Not Call Her Name: An Ethno-poem on Racial and Gendered Violence
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this ethno-poem by L. Kaifa Roland who is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Kaifa is the author…
‘Colloquial Malay’
I bought Colloquial Malay, the book I'm using to study Jawi, for £3 at a second-hand bookshop in Oxford. I want to say a few words about it…
Why Not “Je Suis Lassana”?
Much of the Western world has expressed solidarity with the right to publish offensive cartoons by identifying with the cartoonists at the iconoclastic weekly, Charlie Hebdo, who were…
For those Who Decry the Degraded State of the English Language
Racist claims to the contrary (as in the Urban Dictionary’s definition of Ebonics as “A poor excuse for a failure to grasp the basics of English”), it’s good…
Riots, Rage and Populism: Voices from the Austere City
Greetings from Naples. Photo by Maurizio Albahari. Pope Francis for President. It’s the latest provocation of Italian comedy sketches, but it generates bitter laughter. It speaks to the…
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 thanks to Coralynn Davis, Carole McG…
Racism in ‘Exodus’ Casting
The new Ridley Scott movie, Exodus, is attracting criticism because of the racial background of its stars. Christian Bale and Sigourney Weaver are white people playing ancient Egyptians…
The Divine Comedy of Liberal Good Intentions
This morning I was sent a slice of internet gold.* The story is of a white American couple, desperate to adopt a baby. An opportunity presents itself in a…
Expulsion order to 18 Romanian Romani families in Montreuil
That’s an interesting issue. I’m doing fieldwork in Montreuil, near Paris; yesterday with an activist we went to see a number of Romanian Romani families squatting a building…
Expulsion order to 18 Romanian Romani families in Montreuil
That’s an interesting issue. I’m doing fieldwork in Montreuil, near Paris; yesterday with an activist we went to see a number of Romanian Romani families squatting a building…
Expulsion order to 18 Romanian Romani families in Montreuil
That’s an interesting issue. I’m doing fieldwork in Montreuil, near Paris; yesterday with an activist we went to see a number of Romanian Romani families squatting a building…
Expulsion order to 18 Romanian Romani families in Montreuil
That’s an interesting issue. I’m doing fieldwork in Montreuil, near Paris; yesterday with an activist we went to see a number of Romanian Romani families squatting a building…
Still Holding Out for a Second Opinion: Carlos’s Story II
Back in March, I started a DNA experiment with five friends. I invited each of them to take a genetic ‘ancestry’ test – something that most of them had barely heard…
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…
“Irreplaceable ethnographic record”?; more like commodification andexotification
Books like Jimmy Nelson’s are important because they highlight the inner battle that occurs when consuming content that is simultaneously problematic and enjoyable. On the surface, this book…
“Irreplaceable ethnographic record”?; more like commodification andexotification
Books like Jimmy Nelson’s are important because they highlight the inner battle that occurs when consuming content that is simultaneously problematic and enjoyable. On the surface, this book…