ethnocentrism – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

“Stop the Shot”: Resistance through Science, Religion, and Law

On August 4, an interesting event took place: “Stop the Shot”. This was a video press conference organized by the Truth for Health Foundation in the US, which was live streamed online and has since been uploaded to various alternative video hosting platforms—on the main one advertised, it has already received three quarters of a […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

0.171: Anthropology and the Will to Meaning: Vassos Argyrou

This interlude in the series is to finally introduce the work of Dr. Vassos Argyrou (Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Hull), specifically his book, Anthropology and the Will to Meaning: A Postcolonial Critique (London: Pluto Press, 2002) which I have referred to in the past on several occasions (a condensed version of […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

0.185: Terms of Incorporation, Concepts of Domination

Phrases such as “decolonizing anthropology”* and “anthropology and the colonial encounter” have become salient in anthropology especially since they are the titles of two of the better known, most widely quoted books on the subject. What subject? That is what is lacking clarity, because presumably the phrases above are meant to mean something, and if […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

American Anthropologists against Counterinsurgency: Part Two

On 04 December, 2007, I posted the first part of this review of postings collected on the blog dedicated to the statement issued by the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association. The original statement issued by the Executive Board was released on 31 October, 2007. In this second part, long delayed, I will review […]