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Scanning the Hard Drives of the Softest “Science”? Why are the irrelevant so relevant…and interesting?

(If you can think of a better title that joins together the two bits of news below, then please let me know.) Some anthropology news for today: ••••••• No totalitarianism here, as anthropologists get their laptops scanned at airports in the U.S. Perhaps the idea is to have the benefits of the Minerva program — […]

The Ethnographic Adventure of a “Rogue Sociologist”: Gang Leader for a Day goes Hollywood

Thanks to “Anthroman” (also known as Dr. John L. Jackson, Jr., an anthropology professor and filmmaker, not to mention blogger) for his article in The Root, “Hustle and Show.” The article is about a book by Sudhir Venkatesh, co-author of Freakonomics, titled Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets, which […]