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Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXI
My latest articles and interviews: Alabama proves that appealing to Trump voters is a lost cause. The power is elsewhere (12/13/17) — Globe and Mail With Trump, the GOP…
Salmon-Skinned Aristocracy: Beginnings of Oregon Statehood
Robert Shortess was an 1839 emigrant to Oregon. In 1843 he was was elected to the Oregon Territorial Legislature in the 2nd wolf meeting (teh founders of Rome…
La teoría del pequeño empujón
La historia humana suele contarse como la crónica de la lucha por el poder. En las escuelas se enseñan batallas, cabecillas y como las fronteras de los imperios…
Oregon Tribal Newspapers in the Public Sphere
The last eight years have seen huge growth in the availability of Oregon’s Newspapers in a digital format. The Project Historic Oregon Newspapers offers now dozens of papers…
Do Instagram And Flickr Shape the Art of the Revolution?
Is Instagram a significant factor in how Egyptian artists used street art to protest the revolution? How about Flickr? My sense, based on all the recent books and…
Trade Between the Interior and the Coast; Kalapuyans, Klikitats, Coosans
Previous to the Americans and the British In Oregon, the tribes had a millennium of interrelationships with one another. Trade was a major part of the lives of…
Efuru@50: en dokumentärfilm om kvinnliga författare i Nigeria
Av Paula Uimonen och Yaki Bozi Firandet av Flora Nwapa, pionjär av afrikanska kvinnors litteratur. År 1966 publicerade Flora Nwapa Efuru, den första internationellt publicerade romanen av en…
Muzo: Colombia’s Emerald Kingdom
By Bram Ebus Muzo, Colombia – It is here where clouded forests overgrow the mountain slopes in which world’s most valuable emeralds are hidden. For much of history,…
Human Rights in an Age of Immorality and Unreason
This post is part of a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights (CfHR), now represented on the Members’ Programmatic, Advisory,…
Advice From the Frontlines: DC-Based Human Rights Defenders
This post is part of a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights (CfHR), now represented on the Members’ Programmatic, Advisory,…
Language, Human Rights, and Social Justice
This post is part of a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights, now represented on the Members’ Programmatic,…
The UN Declaration of Human Rights and the 2017 US Tax Bill: Reflecting on the Anthropological Response
This post is the first in a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights, now represented on the Members’…
The roots of modern Europe’s links to classical antiquity through the Arabs
Jairus Banaji has posted a beautiful memoir in Facebook showing the linguistic and practical history of Arab mediation between the ancient Greeks and 13th century Venice with reference…
The roots of modern Europe’s links to classical antiquity via the Arabs
Jairus Banaji has posted a beautiful memoir in Facebook showing the linguistic and practical history of Arab mediation between he ancient Greeks and 13th century Venice with reference…
Oral Histories of Native Experiences at Yahaats Sub-Agency
Yachats, today, is a tourist area on the Oregon Coast. The area is known for its amazingly beautiful coastline, for sea lions, and whale watching and weekend vacationing.…
¡Un Saludo! Voice, Memory, and Migration in Cumbia Sonidera, A Conversation & Listening
If you’re in New York, join me for a conversation and listening with Jace Clayton (DJ /rupture) and Alejandro Aviles (Sonido Kumbala) at Union Docs, a non-profit Center…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XX
Here’s a round-up of my latest articles and interviews: Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance (11/26/17) — Globe and Mail It’s time to purge the…
Why Al-Jazeera America Never Gained Traction
“Can Al Jazeera English leverage its ‘Egypt moment’ into an American audience?” That question was asked back in 2011 by William Youmans and Katie Brown in a 2011 article…
American Mythic Origins, Thanksgiving, Mascots and the Oregon Trail
Over the last week I have taped at least two shows for the radio about my thoughts about Thanksgiving. Suddenly everyone wants to know what “Natives” think about…
“The Message and the Media: Advancing Your Mission through Communications” a 2017 AAA Annual Meeting Workshop Preview
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AmAnth17. This post was submitted by Jeff Martin, AAA’s director…
“Germany’s dirty secret”
This post by Shirley Fiske is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. The conference itself exuded “green”…