Is A Dystopian Consumer Future Already Here?
This blog post is actually an announcement….I’ve started a new chapter and a new blog, and I am calling it “Consuming Culture”. Here is a sneak peak with…
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Ep. #7 The knowledge we value: Dipesh Chakrabarty talks the contentious politics of knowledge production
“Doing history ideally is like doing anthropology of people who are gone, except that you don’t have native informants, you only have these written fragmentary sources. But the…
A History of Poppies, War, and Death
Source: http://wellcomeimages.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?MIROPAC=N0021523 The opium poppy, effortlessly sprouting across several continents, has captured the attention of humankind for thousands of years…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXIV
Here are my latest articles and interviews: After a year of Trump, women expect less from men — but demand more (1/22/18) — Globe and Mail Trump’s first State…
What Can Anthropology Tell us about Data in the 21st Century?
Last week I wrote a comment piece for the Corsham Institute’s Observatory for a Connected Society app asking ‘What can Anthropology tell us about data in the 21st…
The Remarkable Paradox of Militant Christians
This post was submitted by Alice Beck Kehoe, professor of anthropology, emerita, at Marquette University. Steve Bannon, Breitbart News. Standoff of a man, his sons and fellows against encroachment…
How Canadian bureaucrats make state territory in the name of ‘restoring’ Indigenous rights
I’m quite happy that some recent work of mine is now out in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.[very happy to send copies to anybody with…
Culture when it takes us captive
[This post was originally published on Medium.] Every organization operates out of an idea of itself. (We call this idea several things: our “business model,” our “value proposition,”…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, part XXIII
Here are my articles and interviews from the past week: Trump’s racism is more than rhetoric — it forms policies and ruins lives (1/13/18) — Globe and Mail The…
On tricking ducks: Industrial naturecultures and the toxic bodies of oil sands country
Whitney Larrat-Smith, UC Davis § “We were walking for a long time before I saw it. It was an exceptionally hot day in July for Northern Alberta, intensified by…
A betting man’s reflections on money
A betting man’s reflections on money[1] Keith Hart Abstract Part 1 describes my life as a betting man, starting out as a teenager in Manchester and achieving some…
A betting man’s reflections on money
A betting man’s reflections on money[1] Keith Hart Abstract Part 1 describes my life as a betting man, starting out as a teenager in Manchester and achieving some…
Leadership for the Ecozoic: Call for PhD students (McGill/Vermont)
See the link below for PhD opportunities regarding a new program jointly produced by McGill University and the University of Vermont…a follow up to their partnership on the…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, part XXII
I took a couple weeks off from writing articles to finish up some book projects — I’m involved in three books coming out in 2018. My 2015 essay…
The real economy? The challenge of dialectical method
The real economy? The challenge of dialectical method[1] Keith Hart[2] Abstract This blatantly introspective essay seeks to trace a path from the postulation of an informal economy as…
The real economy? The challenge of dialectical method
The real economy? The challenge of dialectical method[1] Keith Hart[2] Abstract This blatantly introspective essay seeks to trace a path from the postulation of an informal economy as…
New book from Christopher Preston: The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World
I’ve long enjoyed reading Christopher Preston’s work on environmental ethics and look forward to this new book with MIT Press out later this spring. The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning…
Working Hard or Hardly Working? Reflections on Ethnographic Fieldwork in Tourism
By Mari-Elina Ekoluoma I have on many occasions felt a need to ponder upon the tension between the concepts of “work” and “leisure”. This is certainly not something…
The Temple of Heaven | 天壇 (12/8)
This briefer note is the second on our recent trip to China. The context for this travel will come (I hope) a few posts down the road. For…
The IU Gateway Office and Tsinghua University Art Museum (12/8)
This post is about a portion of my recent trip to China. The main focus of this trip was collaborative ethnographic research in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, but…
Postindustrial Landscapes, Communities, and Heritage
I’m excited to be in New Orleans this week for the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Dan Trepal and I are chairing a session entitled,…
Misplaced Memorials
I recently found a mysterious, out-of-place grave marker on a vacant lot in Detroit, and I went down a research rabbit hole trying to figure out how it…
NDNHISTORYRESEARCH End of the Year 2017 Wrap
This year, 2017, has shown a lot of growth after the 2016 breakout year, capping two years of amazing histories being written, and an awesome response from my…