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Embedded Anthropology in Australia: The Debate Continues

November 14, 2010 by Maximilian Forte

Editorial note: In Encircling Empire Report #3, I featured an article from an exciting Australian magazine, Arena, along with extended extracts, authored by Barry Morris and Andrew Lattas. That article was “Embedded Anthropology and the Intervention.” Since then I was contacted by one of the central figures criticized in their article, anthropologist Francesca Merlan, inquiring […]

Encircling Empire: Report #3, 18-23 September 2010

September 23, 2010 by Maximilian Forte

EE: Report #3, 18—23 September 2010 Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given time period. They are intended to be useful for those interested in: ● contemporary and critical political anthropology ● public anthropology ● imperialism and imperial decline ● militarism/militarization ● the political economy of […]

New Release: INDIGENOUS COSMOPOLITANS

June 2, 2010 by Maximilian Forte

Finally, after three years of work, my newest edited volume is out: Indigenous Cosmopolitans Transnational and Transcultural Indigeneity in the Twenty-First Century Reviewers’ comments: “Timely and original, this volume looks at indigenous peoples from the perspective of cosmopolitan theory and at cosmopolitanism from the perspective of the indigenous world. In doing so, it not only […]

Images of Resurgence and the Everyday: Warriors, Iron Workers, Bakers, and Cigarette Vendors in Kahnawake, Quebec

September 21, 2008 by Maximilian Forte

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For more, please see the short photo essay, “(Surface) Images & Aboriginal Graffiti from Kahnawake: A Mohawk Rez outside Montreal, Canada,” at 1D4TW.

Navajo Nation Steelpan, and Aboriginal Reggae

June 17, 2008 by Maximilian Forte

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It seems that Trinidad’s steelpan has “gone native” in the Navajo Nation in the U.S. (Yes, the “steelpan” is a Trinidadian invention, reportedly the only new musical instrument to have been invented in the 20th century.) Navajo Nation youth, organized into a steelpan orchestra, played at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in […]

Aboriginal Film Festivals, 2008: Montreal, Winnipeg, London, San Francisco

June 17, 2008 by Maximilian Forte

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Montreal, currently underway: FESTIVAL PRÉSENCE AUTOCHTONE 2008 FIRST PEOPLE’S FESTIVAL, 2008 June 12 – 22 This is the 18th year of the festival. ••••••• Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, 2008 November 20 – 23 Call for entries ••••••• London – Native Spirit Festival, 2008 October Call for entries ••••••• 33rd Annual American Indian Film Festival American […]