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Join us for discussion on topics related to anthropology of the Middle East. What's new in anthropology in the region? What do we mean by the "Middle East" today? What kinds of research should we be engaged in to transform anthro. in the region?See More
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Gentrificación en Sevilla:
Un regalo sin estrenar por la población actual del barrio.

On Chagnon:
Finding the honest balance.

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More scholarly research on the informal economy.

Local banknotes in times of crisis.

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What is anthropology? A film. 9 Replies

Started by Huon Wardle in The OAC Forum. Last reply by Huon Wardle May 13.

Globalisation are becoming increasingly international,

Started by Dr. Respati Nining, MPd in The OAC Forum May 11.

'ultra-conserved' words.

Started by Huon Wardle in The OAC Forum May 8.

Albanian Sworn Virgins 2 Replies

Started by Mentor Mahmuti in The OAC Forum. Last reply by Rut Rosenthal May 2.

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After the disaster (but before Krugman endorsed Klein's shock doctrine)

Nate Roberts posted a link on Facebook to a recent piece by Paul Krugman essentially saying that he once thought Naomi Klein's views on neoliberalism were extreme, but now he thinks she could be right. This led me to look up an Anthropology Today editorial I published in…

Natural Language and the Social Sciences

For my current project, which automates an approach to understanding decision making processes of elites, first developed by Robert Axelrod in the 1970s, I make use of two newly developed computational linguistic tools (see my github profile).

Rather than discussing the specifics of my current project, which you can read about here, I…

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 seen as resembling Hirschman, in a complimentary way.

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