Living Anthropologically: Purpose of Anthropology: Will only matter if it...
Today, back to teaching, first class of Cultural Anthropology, thinking about the purpose of anthropology, especially sociocultural anthropology. In previous versions of this class I have used Carol...
View ArticleLiving Anthropologically: Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, and the Anthropological...
Franz Boas is commonly acknowledged as a founding figure in US academic anthropology, but it was his student Ruth Benedict who introduced this US brand of anthropology to the world via the 1934...
View ArticleLiving Anthropologically: Cultures as Islands: Ruth Benedict, Dobu, and...
Ruth Benedict’s first example in Patterns of Culture, “The Pueblos of New Mexico” wonderfully illustrates her theme. Benedict provides a people who are obviously racially indistinguishable from their...
View ArticleLiving Anthropologically: Globalization Stories: Systematic Erasure of...
Culturally, the world we inherit today is the product of global flows that started in the late fifteenth century and continue to affect human populations today. Yet the history of the world is rarely...
View ArticleLiving Anthropologically: Gang Culture, Courtroom Anthropology: How do we get...
In August 2013, a reader sent this dilemma regarding the use of “gang culture”: Dear Jason, I am an anthropologist now working as an appellate court public defender. I am attempting to challenge the...
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