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COLLABORATION, ACCOUNTABILITY, RECIPROCITY: making anthropology a public good, and not the preserve of professional cliques alone.
“The collectives TFTT [The Fire This Time] and IR/IR [Indigenous Resistance, Indigenous Reality] craft a hypnotic, militant dub music intended to transmit a supershock to the forces of global devastation. But most importantly, for TFTT and IRIIR, ‘dub’ is a comprehensive and enlarged term that refers to their aesthetic and musical sensibilities, philosophical orientations and […]
Read More…Thanks to the careful assistance of Owen Wiltshire, Zero Anthropology is now a Wikileaks mirror. We are proud to join this effort. See us at wikileaks.openanthropology.org.
Read More…With President Barack Obama sending at least 30,000 additional American troops to knock the Taliban off-balance and a U.S.-led offensive in Helmand province, a better understanding of today’s Taliban is central to the effort to defeat them and to begin withdrawing some American troops from Afghanistan in summer 2011. (McClatchy, 14 March 2010) A very […]
Read More…Open to the Military For those following the current conflict between the Open Anthropology Project (OAP) and the Open Anthropology Cooperative (OAC), outlined in these three posts (1, 2, 3) and the extensive commentary that follows them, readers will know that one of the key actors in this has been Keith Hart, who established the […]
Read More…A new development in anthropology online has taken form today, and that is the creation of the Open Anthropology Cooperative. Since roughly 22 May a discussion emerged on Twitter concerning the possibility of taking anthropological collaboration online to a new level. I first learned of this discussion from Lorenz Khazaleh at antropologi.info, even though I […]
Read More…This is my animation of a musical spoken word poem by my late friend and collaborator, Dr. Roi Kwabena. The piece is titled “Deep Obeah” and is perhaps the most musical and most sung of the pieces that he produced and that made its way onto his Y42K album. Also, so far this is the […]
Read More…DEINZEIN, the newest anthropology blog, by fellow Montréal anthropologist Kiven Strohm, is announcing the following round table for Friday, 06 February, 2009, from 12:30pm to 3:30pm in the Salle Marius Barbeau, in the Département d’anthropologie, in the Pavillon Lionel-Groulx at the Université de Montréal. The session is titled “The Anthropologist in Mined Fields,” and I […]
Read More…In a previous post, “Accepting the Might to Exist: Some Israeli Lessons for Anthropology,” a close Trinidadian friend and non-academic collaborator, Guanaguanare, wrote what I thought was an especially penetrating comment on complicit silence from those one might look to for some guidance in understanding issues of conflict, human rights, on the human condition itself, […]
Read More…ROI KWABENA Today is the first anniversary of the death of Dr. Roi Kwabena, someone whose presence in my own work and evolution was fundamental, a mentor and guide, a great example of a publicly engaged anthropologist — completely public, in the sense of not being tied to any academic position, and inspiring some to […]
Read More…Un numero crescente di antropologi ha cominciato a produrre e diffondere il loro lavorro su Internet, specialmente in forma di blog. Come risultato di questo vediamo che l’antropologia in tutte le sue forme diventa più rilevante e sicuramente più visibile per il resto del mondo. Per questo motivo «Neuroanthropology» proporre di creare una collezione dei […]
Read More…My thanks to the new magazine, AnthroNow, for placing the article by Gerald M. Sider online in its current issue (vol. 1, no. 1, April 2009), titled: “Can Anthropology Ever Be Innocent“. This turned out to be quite a valuable and relevant article for me, in helping me to reconfigure what ethnography can mean, and […]
Read More…Announcing an exciting new project and upcoming first issue of a new open access journal dedicated to social movements. From the website for INTERFACE: Interface is a new journal launched by activists and academics around the world in response to the development and increased visibility of social movements in the last few years — and […]
Read More…The following is a Spanish translation of the original and unrevised document that appeared in English on this blog on 09 September, 2008. Lo siguiente es una traducción al español del documento original que apareció en Inglés en este blog el día 09 de septiembre, 2008. Algunos de los cambios en el texto original no […]
Read More…Revised: 21 September 2008 This document is meant to be the start of a decolonized code of ethics, ethics as seen not from the point of view of the foreign anthropologist, but from the vantage point of the community “receiving” that anthropologist. The history behind this document is quite long, dating at least to Vine […]
Read More…First, let me get straight to the announcement — please visit: THE REVIEW OF THE INDIGENOUS CARIBBEAN CENTER This is a “renewed” blog in terms of site redesign, renaming, and building on its precursor, The CAC Review, which first started in early 2003 on the kacike.org domain.(1) It is new in some ways as well: […]
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