I concluded my earlier post (April 28, 2025) with a challenge: Should anthropologists continue to report all evidence of class…

The earliest anthropologists were certain that they could use their methods and theories to understand “America.” Some (M. Mead, L.…

From Arts (practical), to Life (psychological), to Education (social) in the attempts to understand and analyze, in order to educate…

I am always viscerally skeptical of fads in anthropology. Often, they disappear after only a few years, or move back…

[this was drafted in August 2024 but could not be posted at the time] « Un spectacle extraordinaire, unique au…

[ORIGINALLY POSTED ON FEBRUARY 17, 2024] One of our doctoral students, Ms. Mako Miura, recently challenged me with a question…

[ORIGINALLY POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2023] I would probably not have gone to see Barbie (the movie) if I had…

From the time when I played “les coboilles et les indiens,” 70 years ago, in the streets of small Southern…

I first mused about the end of the Corona epoch (a.k.a “COVID-19") two years ago. I did it again a…

Half a century ago, when I searched for a catchy title for the book building on my dissertation (1972), I…