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• December 18, 2009
• 8:06

  Everyday life and business as usual

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  Everyday life and business as usual Bob Jessop In my first blog, I reflected on the return from panic in September-November 2008 to the appearance of business as usual some 12 months later. Wearing my political economist’s hat, I suggested ...
• December 14, 2009
• 13:33

  A Return to “Business as Usual”?

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  A Return to “Business as Usual”? Unlike other contributors, I have no training in anthropology – unless one counts a first-year course taken 45 years ago, when I was introduced to the debate between, among others, Raymond Firth and Karl ...
• November 21, 2009
• 17:45

  Why don’t more people make their own money?

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  Keith Hart Open Anthropology Cooperative What can anthropology offer someone who wants to understand money better? Most anthropologists don’t like money and they don’t have much of it. It symbolizes the world they have rejected for something more authentic elsewhere. ...
• November 19, 2009
• 15:50

  Surfing the credit crunch with Abdul Aziz

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  Keith Hart www.thememorybank.co.uk The fall of the Berlin Wall was famously heralded as ‘the end of history’, but in fact it restored a sense of history for many of us by catapulting us back to before the Cold War and ...
• November 17, 2009
• 10:18

  The limits of naivety in the anthropology of money

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  Keith Hart   The Memory Bank What would happen if anthropologists, for some limited purposes, abolished the division between academic writing and journalism that Mauss himself observed and that has prevented us from grasping how they fed into each other at ...
• November 15, 2009
• 11:06

  “The great economic revolutions are monetary in nature” (Mauss)

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  Keith Hart Open Anthropology Cooperative For Marcel Mauss, the years 1920-25 were packed and fruitful. His political party and the Left in general had a real shot at winning power in France and did so in 1924. Two-thirds of his ...
• November 13, 2009
• 10:55

  “In the long run we’re all dead” (Keynes)

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  Keith Hart Open Anthropology Cooperative Maynard Keynes stormed out of the Versailles treaty negotiations after his advice not to pulverize the German economy was rejected by Lloyd-George and Clemenceau. He published a book about it in 1919, The Economic Consequences ...
• November 12, 2009
• 10:57

  Capitalising on crisis

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  Please see this article on the emergence of markets in new environmental products (e.g. carbon) in relation to the financial crisis, as a route through which capitalism is capitalising on crisis: Sullivan, Sian Green Capitalism, and the Cultural Poverty of ...
• November 05, 2009
• 20:06

  Banking conferences

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  Dr Gillian Tett, Anthropologist and Assistant Editor, Financial Times While I was recently reading Karen Ho’s excellent ethnography of Wall Street, Liquidated, I was struck by a passage where she describes the difficulty that besets any anthropologist who is trying ...
• 20:00

  Anthropology News: an article by our blogger

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  Dr Nayanika Mookherjee, Ethics Officer, ASA See the October 2009 issue of Anthropology News on ‘ECONOMIC CRISIS: ORIGINS’ – includes an article by Gillian Tett (Icebergs and Ideologies: How Information Flows Fuelled the Financial Crisis). Download PDF here....
• 19:51

  Banking - science or art?

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  Dr Gillian Tett, Anthropologist and Assistant Editor, Financial Times Back in the days when I first became a financial journalist – some 15 years ago – I would sometimes feel a touch embarrassed when I confessed to bankers or anyone ...
• 18:01

  Wall Street Bonuses: Culture, Identity, and Crisis

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  Prof Karen Z. Ho, University of Minnesota This entry is meant to provoke and continue our discussion on financial crises, and in particular, American finance capitalists’ roles in helping to produce the volatile and unequal conditions that manifest as financial ...
• October 16, 2009
• 2:47

  The financial crisis, a view from a Brazilian barrio.

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  Massimiliano Mollona My hope was that this anthropological forum on the financial crisis would challenge some taken-for-granted assumptions about the often-mysterious realm of ‘the economical’. But discussions so far have shown that tensions between ‘the economy’ and ‘society’ exist within ...
• October 08, 2009
• 9:45

  Chasing Alpha

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  Stephen Gudeman We are living through a distressing economic crisis, the dimensions of which none of us has previously experienced. Around the globe, unemployment and sub employment have risen, salaries are frozen, homes are being repossessed, economic inequality continues, and ...
• September 10, 2009
• 11:31

  Corporate Greed

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  Sandy Robertson – 10 September 2009 My education in capitalism began in a tiny branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland.  It was perched above the suburban railway line in Edinburgh, facing the Reid Memorial church (brewery money).  The immaculate ...
• 1:15

  Blogging on the Financial crisis

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  By Nayanika Mookherjee, Ethics Officer, ASA The ASA blog’s attempt to discuss the financial crisis currently occurring around us seeks to bring together anthropologists, sociologists, who work on the cultural political economy, anthropology of money, class, labour, industry, economic anthropology, ...
• November 14, 2008
• 13:47

  On ‘indigenizing’ television

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    By Magnus Course A recent proposal to make a documentary on Shuar head-hunting has a led to a flurry of activity on a variety of lowland South America anthropology lists. The ensuing debate evolved gradually from the airing of concerns ...
• November 05, 2008
• 15:16

  On televising the ‘indigenous’

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  by Daniel Rodriguez I would like to continue the discussion by making a further point in connection to the complex issue of representation of indigenous peoples in current television trends. It could be argued that one of the consequences of ...
• October 19, 2008
• 18:26

  Anthropology on Television

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  by André Singer It has been a momentous few years for representations of anthropology on television. When in the 1970’s we thought Disappearing World would be a pioneering experiment aimed at popularizing the discipline and in turn providing ...
• October 15, 2008
• 12:55

  Introduction to ‘exotic film’ discussion

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  By Simone Abram, ASA Secretary Welcome to the latest ASA Globalog. Members of the committee of the ASA have been increasingly concerned about the boom in TV programmes based on the idea of an ‘encounter with the primitive’, from The ...
• June 30, 2008
• 14:42

  Migrant visions

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  By Ruben Andersson In a migrant shelter run by a feisty Italian priest outside the muggy border town of Tapachula in southern Mexico, I was once put up in a room with two east African refugees, whose case was pending ...
• June 26, 2008
• 19:22

  A criminal confusion

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  By Ruben Andersson Last week, seven ‘inmates’ escaped a privately run immigration removal centre in Oxfordshire. Thankfully, the three of them who eventually remained at large were not dangerous, the media assured us. However, the public was advised not ...
• June 17, 2008
• 15:29

  New directives, same old directions

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  By Ruben Andersson It’s been a terrible month for migrants. In South Africa, they have been hounded, lynched and necklaced in pogroms that have left more than 50 people dead. In Italy, vigilante attacks on Roma have ...
• June 10, 2008
• 19:59

  `Meanwhile at the borders…..`

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  A few thoughts on the immigration industry and the politics of scholarship Dr Imogen Tyler, Sociology Department, Lancaster University, UK. British Borders “My name is Fatmata and I come from Sierra Leone. I left my country because of ...
• May 25, 2008
• 15:28

  Who belongs where? A Global Power Perspective on Migration

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  Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology I woke up in early March to find that I was now a global talent— but only if I had enough ‘points’ to keep my job and ...
• May 08, 2008
• 9:58

  From the perspective of an immigration lawyer

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  Kathryn Cronin, Garden Court Chambers, 5th May 2008 This contribution to the discussion is written from the perspective of an immigration lawyer. I have spent almost 30 years in practice either teaching or advising on immigration law or representing many ...