With Savage Minds, grading, and preparing for my upcoming trip to Taiwan keeping me busy, I don’t have much time to blog. But everyone should take the time to read the following: A speech by Bill Moyers, responding to conservative attacks against PBS in general and Moyers in particular. (You can also listen to an [...]
Over at Savage Minds I have a post about consumerism and inequality. Here is a taste: Unfortunately, today’s anthropologists seem to be increasingly fetishizing the commodity. There are lots of reasons for this … However, I worry about this growing emphasis on consumption, especially as such studies can obscure the very nature of social inequality [...]
That was then: It is the judgment of our commander in Afghanistan, General Eichenberry, that in fact the violence that we saw in Jalalabad was not necessarily the result of the allegations about disrespect for the Koran, but more tied up in the political process and the reconciliation process that President Karzai and his cabinet [...]
Last September I wrote an article in Anthropology News encouraging my fellow anthropologists to get online. I was frustrated that while there are numerous blogs by just about every other branch of academia, anthropologists were still largely absent from the online hubbub. Since I wrote that article, the anthropological blogsphere has been slowly expanding. This [...]