In my earlier post, I attempted to “assess” CG the way I might assess a student. This assessment led me…

I have started organizing my blog posts in view of a possible publication. This is involving re-reading and re-indexing. In…

After the eclipse of “community” in the late 1960s anthropology, culminating with Geertz’ quip that “anthropologists do not villages study…

This is a development on a series of blogs on what Ray McDermott once called  "reply anthropology" For some years,…

Once upon a time, during my first two decades at Teachers College (in the department of, at first, Home &…

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…