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The Leftist Discipline Debates its Right Wing?

August 8, 2008 by

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Another very interesting debate has been prompted by an article by Hugh Gusterson, that is, the same article in Foreign Policy that was previously discussed on this blog. In my review I noted Gusterson’s contention that anthropology is “the most left-leaning discipline.” My writing on this blog seems to endorse another view, that anthropology contains […]

Show Me Your Motion! (Of Mentors, Peers, and Mimesis and Alterity in Trinidad)

July 21, 2008 by

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True scientific knowledge, on the contrary, demands abandonment to the very life of the object – G.W.F. Hegel, Preface, The Phenomenology of Mind Discourse of all kind is heavily embedded with speech that has previously occurred, typically in the form of the first person direct quotation. – Joel Sherzer, quoted in Michael Taussig (1993, p. […]

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