November 2010 Blog Posts (25)

Edward Said, a one-sided referee of globalization

I admire Said's originality but not his myopic criticism and total westernization of the intellectual and visual phenomenon called Orientalism.…

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Added by M Izabel on November 8, 2010 at 12:30am — 12 Comments

The Isolated Ethnographer and the Ethnography of Isolation

When I was still hopeful that I would become a novelist a few years ago, I tried to write about an independent anthropologist who wanted to visit China but had no money so she agreed to be a "mule," a paid transporter or carrier of illegal drugs. She was caught and sentenced to…

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Added by M Izabel on November 5, 2010 at 10:49pm — No Comments

Letter from Jamaica



04-11-10

Here in Kingston everyone is waiting for tropical storm Tomas, the supposedly softer gentler brother of Nicole, to blow in today and tomorrow. As I write, in the University of the West Indies library, staff are beginning to secure the computers from water damage. As if it hadn't had enough it looks like Haiti will take the brunt of the weather: people in relocation camps - tents hardly equipped for the expected deluge.



My fieldwork site covers two sides of a valley… Continue

Added by Huon Wardle on November 4, 2010 at 5:00pm — 15 Comments

[New book announcement] Envisioning Eden: Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond

*** Sorry for cross-posting ***

Please circulate this new book announcement. If anybody is interested in purchasing the book, contact the author because he can offer a really great limited-time discount offer.





Envisioning Eden: Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond

Noel B. Salazar

Berghahn Books, November 2010…

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Added by Noel B. Salazar on November 1, 2010 at 11:44pm — No Comments

Mogollon Conference - Day 2

Michele Hegmon of Arizona State University asked us to consider the Classic Mimbres society as "Another Way of Being," and to do so through the archaeological data. She began by contrasting the layouts of Mibres pueblos vs. contemporary structures at Mesa Verde.


Mesa Verde unit pueblos are very uniform in their overall form, and in room size and shape: Room block, kiva, midden. This is suggestive…
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Added by Paul Wren on November 1, 2010 at 3:42am — No Comments

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