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Anthropologists protest police brutality at AAA.

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  via (More photos by Marco Hill here) Link: http://anthropoliteia.net/2014/12/05/die-in-protest-at-the-2014-american-anthropological-association-meetings/   ************* Anthropology: It’s still white public space–An interview with Karen Brodkin (Part II)  Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog  This is the second part of my interview with Karen Brodkin.  Part I is here. Ryan Anderson: All of this has me … Read more

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