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The Stakes for Anthropology in 2012
Thinking of What is Anthropology as the study of humanity is a good beginning, but anthropology’s documentation of human life is not just a neutral exercise. More than any other academic discipline,...
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Anthropology and Human Nature
As an academic discipline, anthropology was born relatively recently, with a key period of institutionalization in the 1880s-1930s. By that time, debates about human nature already had a deep history,...
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Anthropology on Power, Inequality, Human Nature
Lots of anthropology blog activity over the weekend–I’m saving some material for a general update. This update concentrates on recent reflections about how anthropology studies power, inequality, and...
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Gun Violence Anthropology: AAA and the NRA
Update January 2013:A big thank you to the American Anthropological Association for issuing the Statement on Gun Violence and to anthropologist Chad Huddleston for revisiting his ethnography, ‘Doomsday...
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Anthropology on Noble Savages, Napoleon Chagnon
Not even finished with Anthropology on Jared Diamond – The World Until Yesterday and now Napoleon Chagnon splashes in with Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes–the Yanomamo and the...
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Marshall Sahlins, National Academy of Sciences, Napoleon Chagnon
This page tracks the Marshall Sahlins resignation from the National Academy of Sciences, as a complement to the page tracking anthropology-oriented reviews of Noble Savages by Napoleon Chagnon. There...
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