Norman Girvan – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

Decolonizing Thought in the New World

On the Passing of Norman Girvan and the Continuation of the New World This past Wednesday (April 9, 2014), Norman Girvan passed away after suffering paralyzing injuries on a hiking trip in Dominica. He was in Cuba receiving treatment. Norman Girvan, trained as an economist, was by most appreciative accounts a leader in the Caribbean […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Encircling Empire: Report #3, 18-23 September 2010

EE: Report #3, 18—23 September 2010 Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given time period. They are intended to be useful for those interested in: ● contemporary and critical political anthropology ● public anthropology ● imperialism and imperial decline ● militarism/militarization ● the political economy of […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

March 2009 in Review: Academic Freedom, Militarization, Economic Crisis, and Jokes

March was one of this blog’s busiest months, with the second highest number of overall views since the blog started, averaging at 729 per day. Two of the main themes concerned academic freedom, especially with coverage of Ward Churchill’s wrongful termination suit against the University of Colorado, and more discussion of global militarization. The links […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Useful Anthropology (and “Political Gonorrhoea”)

A variety of thoughts on the “uses” and “usefulness” of anthropology were provoked by Lorenz Khazaleh’s synopsis on African anthropology, which also contains links to online papers of the World Anthropologies Network, a source of especial importance to some of the issues I wish to cover in this blog. Within the North American context it […]