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The Exodus Story and Western Conceptions of Progress, Movement, Revolution

March 12, 2011 by

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Exodus: Movement of the People Thinking still of Gastón Cordillo’s essays on resonance—“Resonance and the Egyptian Revolution” and “The Speed of Revolutionary Resonance,” and others writing about “The Phenomenology of the Resonance-Reverberation Doublet”—I remember writing to Gastón that the concept of resonance reminded me of “agitation,” which raised other associations of political terms that are […]

The Craft of the Online Anthropologists: The New Medium is the Message

May 19, 2008 by

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The Craft of Social Anthropology, edited by A.L. Epstein and published in 1978, was jokingly referred to by some older anthropologists as “The Crafty Anthropologist” (or maybe it was a private joke in a small circle — no matter). I think the joke is a useful point of departure for this post. CRAFT cræft “power, […]

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