Open Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Arturo Escobar
My browsing brought me today to this article in the Guardian about Colombian thinker Arturo Escobar. Has anyone hear heard of him? Or referred to his work? I'd particularly like to hear Keith Hart and...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: No Exit?
The Economist's obituary for Alfred Hirschman attributes to Hirschman the idea that systems from which the disgruntled can exit can achieve a perverse stability, in which those capable of revolution...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: The Greenwall Report: What sorts of...
The Greenwall Report (click here for PDF) is titled Enhanced Warfighters: Risk, Ethics, and Policy. It addresses ethical and policy issues arising from military-supported research and development...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Ethnographic Data Mining
From the online Journal of Social Structure ABSTRACT: Advances in text analysis, particularly the ability to extract network based information from texts, is enabling researches to conduct detailed...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: A time and a life
In many of our discussions we see the meme that describes anthropology as a tool of first imperialism and then globalization. We now have an opportunity to reflect on the experience of those who...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Does consanguinity [endogamy]...
Could it be that close kin ties produced by endogamy inhibit democracy? Some evidence points in that direction. From a network analysis perspective, I would add the suggestion that the association of...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Speaking of Language
An important thought, attributed to one of my favorite philosophers, Stanley Cavell. Language, to Cavell, is ambiguous not because it is imperfect, awaiting precise definition, but because we do not...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: A New Project
I have just begun a new translation/writing project that may be of particular interest to people with an interest in Japan or Japanese advertising. It involves translating a little red book by one of...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Get used to it. Anthropology will...
Let's face it. For all of the intense moralizing and half-baked political commentary that now passes for anthropological "theory," when it comes to political action anthropologists suck. Why aren't we...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: You are tomorrow's anthropology
Reviewing my recent contributions to Savage Minds and OAC, I see myself writing about anthropology in an increasingly severe and critical tone. As I reflect on where that tone is coming from a phrase...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Joi Ito's Nine Principles
Just stumbled across these thoughts from Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, on Boing-Boing. There are nine or so principles to work in a world like this: 1. Resilience instead of strength, which...
View ArticlePopAnth - Hot Buttered Humanity: The curious history of Western martial music...
Kimigayo, the national anthem of Japan. By Sakurambo, CC-BY-SA-3.0.Tomorrow morning I will stagger out of bed around 5:00 a.m. OK, maybe 5:30. I will slip into the uniform: white dress shirt, green...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Can we think productively about memes?
A tweet from Biella Coleman, led me to Limor Shifman, Memes in a Digital World: Reconciling with a Conceptual Troublemaker. I must say that I like the way Shifman thinks, asking how we could sort...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Life after the Ph.D.
With a tip of the hat to Ryan Anderson, who posted the following on Savage Minds. Check out this interview with Sarah Kendzior about life after the PhD. A lot to think about. And a lot that many...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: You've heard about modeling, sounds...
Help is at hand. Check out Gene Bellinger's Insight Maker. It's Web-based, it's free, you can play with it by yourself or with friends or colleagues.Think of it as a mind map where the pieces...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: An anthropologist in all but name?
Reading this review of a new book about the "anti-utopian reformer with keen eye for detail" Albert Hirschman, I found myself thinking of OAC founder Keith Hart. I wonder what Hart will think of being...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: The Academy as Guild
Reading the following on Dead Voles, I couldn't help recalling Keith Hart's frequent references to the guild structure of academia. More on conditions of work: guilds and industrial revolutions BY...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Is this a book we should read and...
Over on Dead Voles, Carl points us to a discussion on another site called "The Long Eighteenth Century." There the topic being discussed is Simon Gikandi’s Slavery and the Culture of Taste, a book...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Ever wonder what doing business...
This war stories series from the Portigal consulting company's website will keep you riveted. It would be interesting to hear what our colleagues or lurkers have to say.
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: A Project to Keep an Eye On
The following message from anthrodesign is cross-posted with permission of the author, Lynne Lohfeld. It should be of interest to anyone involved with applied or medical anthropology or the role that...
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