Ryan anderson's Blog – May 2010 Archive (8)

Academia, Anthropology, and HTS: Two Recent Posts Worth Reading

First, read through this post over at Savage Minds. Be sure to read the comments as well. Then, go read this post over at Zero Anthropology.



What is HTS? How should… Continue

Added by ryan anderson on May 29, 2010 at 10:52pm — 5 Comments

Photographs and Anthropology: Context Matters

The above photograph was taken in the summer

of 2005 at an anti-war rally in downtown San Diego.



The above photograph was taken in the summer of 2004

during a trip that…
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Added by ryan anderson on May 27, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments

Michael Wesch and KSU: "A Vision of Students Today"

If you haven't seen this video, check it out. Mike Wesch and his students over at KSU does some pretty inspiring work with media, and they explore some extremely relevant issues. I often check out their projects and I always come away with some new ideas and different ways of thinking about anthropology in relation to contemporary society. This video makes some pretty striking statements about education today:…



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Added by ryan anderson on May 5, 2010 at 5:47am — No Comments

Inside the OAC: Martin Hoyem's "Southern California Lowriders"

Martin Hoyem, who runs the "american ethnography quasiweekly" site, has a photographic project about Southern California lowriders that is definitely work a look. Check out the photo gallery here, and then take some time to look around his site, which is definitely a good change of pace for anthropological publications.…



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Added by ryan anderson on May 5, 2010 at 4:30am — No Comments

Michael Shanks: Ghosts, Mirrors, Machines



The above image of the surface of a daguerreotype was taken by archaeologist Michael Shanks as part of his project "Ghosts in the machine." Daguerreotypes are, of course, one of a kind photographic positives--direct reflections of light that once hit particular objects. What I find particularly intriguing are his ideas about an archaeology of media (or "media archaeology" as he puts… Continue

Added by ryan anderson on May 3, 2010 at 4:22pm — 2 Comments

Paul Mason: "Globalisation: the products but not the ethics"

Over at Neuroanthropology, Paul Mason has a great post that discusses globalization and the ethical issues that are often left out of the equation. One of his main points is that the products of globalization end up all around the world, but political and ethical concerns do not. Here is the intro:



"A photo is featured alongside the quote. In the photo, there is a billboard advertising… Continue

Added by ryan anderson on May 3, 2010 at 3:03pm — No Comments

Amartya Sen on "The Uses and Abuses of Adam Smith"

This might be interesting for any of the economically-oriented anthropologists out there:





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Added by ryan anderson on May 1, 2010 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments

Arizona, Citizenship, and Rights

All of the recent events in Arizona have me thinking about citizenship and rights. Where do our laws begin and end? Do US ideals about inalienable rights stop at our borders? What kinds of rights should be afforded to all people in all places? In his 2008 book The Latino Threat, Leo Chavez writes,

For many, especially anti-immigration groups such as the…
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Added by ryan anderson on May 1, 2010 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

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