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Amerika, Hu Akbar! A people of Mammon, or Love in a Land of Fear
Provocaine: “Love and Duty and Charity and Patriotism; That’s what makes America Great.” Barack Obama’s speech, second term election victory, 2012 You see! It all seems to need to be merged into One Human Society, with common language and rules of behavior called “law”, an easily managed Human Capital Unit (HUCU) grouping of occupational and […]
Education as Oppression: One Bedouin’s Perspective on Progress
October 31, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
To say that anthropologists have long been interested in pastoral nomads would be an understatement. As Rada and Neville Dyson-Hudson described the situation in their 1980 article in the Annual Review of Anthropology: “Pastoral nomads have had a persistent fascination for anthropologists,” a fascination that has to do with the “intriguing and difficult to unravel” […]
Nation-building, Democracy, Free Markets: A Note to the Occupiers
March 13, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
Thanks to another anthro blog for a link to the new (2004) translation of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (published in 1961 as Les damnés de la terre). The first chapter of the 1963 translation was posted here on this blog. In the new translation by Richard Philcox, we also find a foreword […]
What is “American Art”? Thin-Lipped Gravitas
June 9, 2008 by Maximilian Forte
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In an essay by John Updike, in The New York Review of Books titled “The Clarity of Things” (Vol. 55, No. 11, June 26, 2008), he asks what is American in American art? He quotes a 1958 essay by Lloyd Goodrich who wrote: One of the most American traits is our urge to define what […]
Anthropology is Dead, Long Live Anthropology! (Who Wants to Leave those Golden Rule Days in the Jungle?) – 1.3
May 13, 2008 by Maximilian Forte
I just love being in Anthropology. I think it is a great privilege to be in institutional Anthropology in this time…it’s like being among old colonials, secluded in a beautiful jungle estate house, as we ponder the demise of our empire, the disrespect and sometimes fury of the restless natives who sense that independence is […]
The Colonization Will be Televised
October 12, 2007 by Maximilian Forte
“For a long time — at least six decades — photographs have laid down the tracks of how important conflicts are judged and remembered. The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one”–Susan Sontag When a conservative British daily such as The Telegraph can feature a commentary (“Execution gives Saddam a martyr’s crown“) condemning […]
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January 3, 2013 by John Allison
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