Anthropology: The Empire on which the Sun Never Sets (Part 3)

Within the question of the professionalisation of the discipline lies a still largely unexplored area of how Anthropology serves as a western, largely white, middle-class mode of ‘consumption’, specifically the consumption of knowledge about the world that has been ‘appropriately’ filtered, organized, and translated. Of course getting a degree in Anthropology is not just like any other form of consumption, just as it is not merely an expression of curiosity: the process results in formal certification.

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Claude Lévi-Strauss: à la prochaine fois

Almost one year ago we celebrated the remarkable 100th birthday of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Today we learn that his body has died. In the meantime, we continue to work with what he has left us, as can be seen in the latest posts on this blog concerning his vision of a future anthropology, as seen back […]

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Happy Belated Birthday, Claude Lévi-Strauss

November 28, 2008, was the 100th birthday of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who needs no introduction so don’t you dare click that link. The fact of the matter is that I must be one of the few people I know who was not aware of his birthday, until I saw Lorenz Khazaleh’s post on antropologi.info about how […]

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