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Anthropology roundup: “Boas and the Monolingualism of the Other…

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Boas and the Monolingualism of the Other  Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology In my last post on Bauman and Briggs Voices of Modernity I explored their argument that Boas’s notion of culture makes it seem like a prison house from which only the trained anthropologist is capable of escaping. In doing so, however, I … Read more

Anthropology roundup: “Anthropology exposes how miners shape our world and our views of it

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Anthropology exposes how miners shape our world and our views of it The Conversation AU In part, anthropologists help to reveal how the “corporate effect” is produced: how an entity comes to be singularly powerful despite internal inconsistencies. This fracturing of power through description of its social process is admittedly sometimes     From Persian … Read more