Tag: truth
The Familiar Strange , June 5th, 2022
I remember when I was a little girl, I was fascinated with war memorials. Stone colossi towering over people, gravely staring into the infinite as if seeing something…
| , December 27th, 2021
Interview by Irit Dekel Irit Dekel: Your recent book Defiant Discourse helps readers understand the relations between speech and action, revisiting important questions concerning the performat…
Kylie Wong Dolan , April 11th, 2021
Some months ago, I went for an early morning run with a mate at my fieldsite. After a short trot together, she left for work, and I decided…
The Familiar Strange , August 30th, 2020
The notion of the Unreliable Narrator is, for me, not a critique of the perceived moral failings of the anthropological project, but a methodological narrative construct integral to…
The Familiar Strange , February 23rd, 2020
Welcome to our first podcast of 2020! And to kick of the new year season of TFS, we are joined by the lovely Kirsty Wissing, PhD candidate from…
Ilana Gershon , May 28th, 2019
Ilana Gershon interviews Tom Gieryn about his new book, Truth Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University of Chicago, 2018). Gieryn is Rudy Professor Emeritus of Sociology at…
Alexandra Frankel , April 1st, 2019
Why are stand-up comedians better anthropologists than, well, anthropologists? And what happens when a Danish anthropologist takes the mic? Anthropology News recently decided to no longer accept prank…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , September 24th, 2018
This title is nearly an oxymoron. There are historic truths, but what we known of history is an invention of mostly people who did not personally experience that…
Adam Hodges , June 6th, 2018
Collins Dictionary named “fake news” its 2017 word of the year, an easy choice given the word’s “unprecedented usage increase” of 365 percent over the previous year. Collins…
Anne , February 15th, 2018
For World Anthropology Day, we asked Paul Stoller to share his thoughts on the urgent need for a more public anthropology, as well as his ideas about blogging…