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By: John Ravichandran…

An intervention by John Hawks on Savage Minds suggests that, while seminars are a common format for advanced undergraduate and graduate education, 

Seminar courses are often very poorly taught and professors routinely overrate the value of their sessions for students. 

I found myself agreeing with him. But putting that aside, what, I wonder,…

If the title sounds postmodernist, then I think it is the best thing Postmodernism has contributed to the intellectual development of man. Let me start this post with the poem I recently wrote after reading a collection of American postmodern poems.

My first publication about time, bicycles and economic anthropology on http://contemporaneamente.org/ :

IL TEMPO COME VALORE DI SCAMBIO SIMBOLICO IN UNA CICLOFFICINA POPOLARE

This interview with Carlo Rotella, Director of American Studies and Professor of English at Boston College, is a must-read for anthropologists who imagine themselves writing engaging ethnography. The following is a brief sample.

I’m allergic to abstraction. Especially in my first two books, I was telling the story of the transformation of urban America,…

The following is a slightly edited cross-posting from anthrodesign.

As I read this thread, I find myself wondering if some of the critical remarks about big data aren't a bit behind the curve. I am thinking in particular of Sam's remark that, 

I just came across this piece, which might be of interest, excerpted below.

EXCERPT:

As Andrea Stuart writes in the current issue of Granta magazine, her Barbadian heritage is a complicated one. Stuart was born and raised on the Caribbean island, but in 1976, when she was a teenager, her family moved to England. She says her new home wasn’t especially welcoming to newcomers from the Caribbean —…

The following comment is extracted from a conversation started by Mary Alice Scott's post "Paolo Freire, Critical Knowledge and Anthropological Mentoring" on Savage Minds. 

In Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism, the philosopher Stanley Cavell observes that conventional models of…

Review of the Book 'Society Seen Through the Mirror of Life'

নীরবতার না- ভাষাতত্ত্ব: লালনে Non-Linguistics of Silenceme: Lalon

Europe in the global economic crisis

I have been writing about the euro for a decade (Hart 2002, 2007a, 2012), always from a critical perspective, since I have long believed that a single currency cannot address the needs of a large and diverse region. Moreover, the European Union’s ambition to transcend national capitalism by becoming a federal power in the world economy was always compromised by yoking member states to a system whose logic harks back to the gold standard.…

হে প্রণম্য পিতৃদেব, তুমি তো বন্ধু নও/হও (Yayati and Babur Complex)

He didn’t realize

After an isolated childhood,

When he started out

To see what might be going on

Elsewhere in the world,

That there would be

A final exam…

Clifford Geertz, 1999 Charles Haskins Lecture to the American Council of Learned Relations. 

Dreamtime II.

A moment of confusion

And uncertainty of direction,

And an unlooked-for…

'Little Boxes: (Il)Logic(s) of Truth-Room(s)'

Abstract:      

“And the people in the…

Cross posted from the Anthropology group on LinkedIn.

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One way to look at anthropology starts with the question, What would a science of humanity look like? It would, I am pretty sure, look a lot more like field geology as described by John McPhee in Annals of the Former World than classical mechanics. 



Another way to look at anthropology starts with the question, What have anthropologists…

“Folksong and Classical Song: The Discursive Formation of Dividing Practice.”

When Guha (1985) narrated the Rahu-narrative in the light of some sub-altern-oral texts, we found that the hero-villain relationship between Bisnu, the god and Rahu, the anti-god or demon was totally inverted from the…