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Index of posts
- 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…
- The ultimate ignorant school master? (November 9, 2024)
[ORIGINALLY POSTED ON FEBRUARY 17, 2024] One of our doctoral students, Ms. Mako Miura, recently challenged me with a question I had never entertained. We were discussing Jean Lave’s model…
- Race Consciousness, Racism (and race?): Contradictions with consequences (culture!) (July 28, 2023)
From the time when I played “les coboilles et les indiens,” 70 years ago, in the streets of small Southern village, I have experienced something, that is, precisely, a “thing”…
- While crossing Manhattan on 14th Street (February 6, 2023)
Half a century ago, when I searched for a catchy title for the book building on my dissertation (1972), I came up up with Americans Together (1978). I am not…
- on pattern recognition by humans and machines (September 19, 2022)
September 16, 2022 “Pattern recognition”: inevitable though fragile (and necessarily dis-...ing?) productions on which to base some future action---or not. Two recent pieces in the New York Times triggered my…
- Corona as culture (April 8, 2020)
Corona is neither simply juxtaposed to nor simply superposed over COVID-19. In a way, Corona substitutes itself to COVID-19, in another way Corona uses and transforms COVID-19 to realize a…
- on “Hervé Varenne” as object with properties and affordances (January 25, 2020)
This is going to get complex fast, and will take several posts. This is also a development on my last post (1/3/2020) and on earlier others ("On Identity"). It is…
- A warning to apprentice anthropologists: on “identity” in the New York Times (January 3, 2020)
The New York Times is a major adult education institution in the United States. Mostly it educates implicitly but, quite regularly, it gives mini-lectures, in the style of encyclopedia entries.…
- Peirce on habit: another ancestor for normal anthropology? (April 12, 2016)
One must start, not with the apparently habituated adult, but with the suffering (or playing) body amazed at what it has to endure and indexing in the here and now…