Anthropologists interested in political anthropology and/or economic anthropology need to think in terms of poleconomics.  In some of my publications I have used the term poleconomics to indicate that political power and economic clout go hand-in-hand.  That is, those with great wealth either attain high office or have greater than average influence over politicos and political processes.  On the one hand, being in office can open up opportunities to achieve great wealth if one makes the…

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Michel Foucault asks in an interview, "Couldn't everyone's life become a work of art?" even though



1) Foucault had already acknowledged that only a select subset of citizens was empowered to actually undertake an aesthetics of existence.



2) Foucault treats the bios as a non-Kantian work of art, emphasizing that because absoluteness and regularity of structure comes a priori with harmony and social ideal -- only "irregularity, dissymmetry and nonreciprocity"…

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The first issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Humanities, a new open access journal, edited by Ahmad Kipacha in the University of Dodoma, Tanzania, is now online (click on the journal title). A second issue of this trilingual journal is currently in preparation and it is hoped will be ready before the end of the year.



Contents of Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009:



A Note on a… Continue