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Index of posts
- ChatGPT as educator? (January 12, 2026)
In my earlier post, I attempted to “assess” CG the way I might assess a student. This assessment led me to the uncomfortable conclusion, that, in this case, it was…
- assessing ChatGPT as student (January 7, 2026)
I have started organizing my blog posts in view of a possible publication. This is involving re-reading and re-indexing. In this process I found a series of posts published in…
- Family/Community as network of significance (December 10, 2025)
After the eclipse of “community” in the late 1960s anthropology, culminating with Geertz’ quip that “anthropologists do not villages study in villages, “community” came back when Lave, and particularly Wenger’s,…
- research as conversation with ancestors and peers (December 1, 2025)
This is a development on a series of blogs on what Ray McDermott once called "reply anthropology" For some years, I have started the required initial course in a doctoral…
- Change and order in American modes of address and modes of reference (September 25, 2025)
Once upon a time, during my first two decades at Teachers College (in the department of, at first, Home & Family Life later reconstituted as Family & Community Education), I…
- “Factions” AND their critique as an American total social fact (May 15, 2025)
I concluded my earlier post (April 28, 2025) with a challenge: Should anthropologists continue to report all evidence of class (what I refer to here as "factions" based on race,…
- Class, culture & America (or Culture, class & America, or America: Culture and class): Ethnography and interpretation(s) (April 28, 2025)
The earliest anthropologists were certain that they could use their methods and theories to understand “America.” Some (M. Mead, L. Warner) did, directly, and then soon many more have been…
- Teachers College and “Family” (March 15, 2025)
From Arts (practical), to Life (psychological), to Education (social) in the attempts to understand and analyze, in order to educate about, perennial concerns with the settings in which men, women,…
- about ethnoethnography (February 13, 2025)
I am always viscerally skeptical of fads in anthropology. Often, they disappear after only a few years, or move back into obscurity (“ontology”?) and I can ignore them. Others, like…
- powerful representations of a culture (December 6, 2024)
[this was drafted in August 2024 but could not be posted at the time] « Un spectacle extraordinaire, unique au monde et dans l’histoire des Jeux qui, je crois, a…