In San Jose, the members of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) approved resolutions condemning the occupation of Iraq and the use of torture. The events of Saturday's meeting do represent a "noteworthy democratic moment in the history of Amer… more »
Category: "politics"
by lorenz on Nov 7, 2006 in politics, Northern America, anthropology (general), University / Academia
Generally, anthropologists support social justice, but in their own department, they fire colleagues like David Graeber who publicly supported graduate students' right to form a union. "In increasingly corporate universities, the gap between one's schola… more »
"The ethnopolitical Maori-Pakeha movement in New Zealand is subverting democracy, erecting ethnic boundaries between Maori and non-Maori and promoting a cultural elite within Maoridom", Elizabeth Rata claims. She has just published her second book, "Publ… more »
The New York Times called it "Bin Laden's Low-Tech Weapon": Islamic cassette sermons are often associated with terrorism. They are rather a medium for democratic activism and ethical selv-improvement, anthropologist Charles Hirschkind argues in his new b… more »
by lorenz on Sep 25, 2006 in politics, anthropology (general), University / Academia, ethics • 3 comments »
As many of us know, Yale anthropologist David Graeber has been fired for his anarchist activism. He's not the only one who was punished for leaving the academic ivory tower. More and more academics have started blogging, exposing their personal opinions… more »
by lorenz on Aug 27, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, politics, Latin- and Central America, Native American
President Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous head of state, is holding up indigenous values of common ownership and consensus decision-making as a model for his country, the Miami Herald / Latin American Post reports. Morales frequently spells out w… more »
by lorenz on Aug 10, 2006 in politics, Northern America, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia • 3 comments »
Dean Saitta (University of Denver) is one of the four anthropologists in David Horowitz’s book The Professors: The 101 most dangerous academics in America. The reason? His involvement in a debate on the erosion of free public and academic speech in the U… more »
(post in progress) "Strangely, you rarely see anthropologists on the front lines at times like these", anthropologist Maria Teasdale Brodine wrote at anthropology.net on the war in Lebanon nine days ago:
It seems that anthropologists might have the t… more »
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