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Anthropology, Empathy and the Other Regarding Emotions
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger LINDSAY A BELL In the last few weeks, social work scholar turned pop-psychology web superstar Brené Brown came out with a short animated video summarizing much of...
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Anthropology and the Humanities: SMOPS 7
This number of the Savage Minds Occasional Paper Series features Ruth Benedict’s “anthropology and the humanities.” This piece is the published version of the lecture Benedict delivered for her...
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Lawrence of Arabia as anthropologist
To be honest, I was surprised how much attention Peter O’Toole’s recent passing received. We all knew he was famous, but we also learned this week how deeply he was loved. Many people loved him because...
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Are you there Internets? It’s me NAD*
*North American Dialogue; with apologies in advance for acronym abundance Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Lindsay A. Bell I recently became the Associate Editor of North American Dialogue (NAD)....
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Don’t blame Elsevier for exercising the rights you gave them
There has been a lot of talk around the Internet recently about Elsevier taking down PDFs of articles on academia.edu and what it says about scholarly publishing (my favorite analysis is here). As an...
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Culture in the Melting-Pot: SMOPS 6
This week’s Savage Minds Occasional Paper (SMOPS) is Edward Sapir’s “Culture in the Melting-Pot”. In this brief piece, Sapir asks: What would it mean to have a uniquely, authentically American culture?...
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Anthropology After No Future
“The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and...
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Ontology as the Major Theme of AAA 2013
Most attendees of the annual meetings in Chicago are, as one wag put it, exhAAAusted from all our conference going, and the dust is only now settling. As we look back on the conference, however, it is...
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Read James Scott’s review of Jared Diamond
James Scott’s work drives me nuts, but there is no doubt about it: his review of Jared Diamond’s The World Until Yesterday is one of the best is one of the best that has been written, and deserves a...
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Made in China: Notes from the CIA Gift Shop
What might an anthropology of the covert look like? I think of the covert as a particular type of secret, one grounded in deception and shadows, and populated by individuals pretending—in part—to be...
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James Clifford’s new book is too expensive
Really? Thirty bucks for the kindle version of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century? C’mon. Harvard’s decision to skip a paperback version of this book (at least atm) and release...
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Culture, Genuine and Spurious: SMOPS 5
This number of the Savage Minds Occasional Paper Series presents an edited version of Edward Sapir’s essay “Culture, Genuine and Spurious.” “Culture, Genuine and Spurious” is worth reading for several...
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Culture and Ethnology
This week’s SMOPS paper is Robert Lowie’s book Culture and Ethnology, which I have cut down to 19 pages. Robert Lowie was one of the most polemical of the Boasians — the phrase ‘attack dog’ has been...
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The History of the Personality of Anthropology
This week’s SMOPS is an edited version of Kroeber’s “A History of the Personality of Anthropology,” a piece which Kroeber wrote very late in his life. In it, Kroeber lays down his vision of...
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Digital media and the everyday abuse of working adults
I live a lot of my professional life online. I’ve been running a personal research blog for over 5 years now, where I often post quite frank discussions of my experiences as a new academic. I have...
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Responses to ‘the superorganic’
Last week, I posted the first Savage Minds Occasioal Paper (hereafter, “SMOP”) featuring Alfred Kroeber’s article “The Superorganic”. This week I bring you the second occasional paper, “Responses to...
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Savage Mind’s new occasional paper series: first up, The Superorganic
Folks, today I am beginning something new: the Savage Minds Occasional Paper Series. In it, I will present a series of open access, curated texts from the history of anthropological theory. I will keep...
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The travels of a head
Last year I contributed to the Wellcome Collection’s Brains: The Mind as Matter exhibition, an examination of how brains have variously been collected, manipulated, used and abused by different bodies...
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Creativity, Intellectual Freedom & the Field School
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Sara Perry. I have spent a significant portion of the past 1.5 years designing and implementing a series of new courses for archaeology and heritage undergraduate...
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Forgetting Gabriel Tarde
(This guest post comes from Matt Watson, a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Texas Tech University. He’s developing these ideas in a book...
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