Open Anthropology Cooperative http://openanthcoop.net Sun, 12 May 2013 16:53:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://openanthcoop.net/2013/05/12/994/ http://openanthcoop.net/2013/05/12/994/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 16:53:26 +0000 Nathan Dobson http://openanthcoop.net/?p=994 Gentrificación en Sevilla:
Un regalo sin estrenar por la población actual del barrio.

On Chagnon:
Finding the honest balance.

MUST SEE FILM:
What is anthropology?

More scholarly research on the informal economy.

Local banknotes in times of crisis.

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Dennis Webster addresses how a group of men, who are essentially invisible to the state, live in a public park in Genzina, Pretoria, negotiating the ambiguities of street life and community through acts of everyday communism and illegal public gambling. The seminar is available here and the paper here.
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An engineer’s interest.

Consume, or die… no, recycle!
OAC turns a __ into a __.

Not your average academic fare:
OAC offers the alternative.

Alison Redmayne, Mung’anzagala Semugongolwa.

AND, with over 370 pages hits - Is anthropology a science?

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Anthropology wiki.

Don’t spend too long in anthropology…
You might become critical and severe.

Facing inside surfaces:
Perceptions of privacy, space and place in suburban Kenya.

OAC artspace.

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Via Keith Hart, Thomas Strong and David Graeber: Marshall Sahlins submits resignation to National Academy of Science objecting to election of Napoleon Chagnon. The debate continues from the millenium until now (see Inside Higher Ed).
More ethics based discussions inside the OAC:
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7000 MEMBERS!!!!!!
Elina Artamonova becomes our lucky 7000th member.

Graeber and Latour:
A crossover in the world of Debt 2.0.

Manifesto for a Human Economy:
Productive contradiction?
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I know you all knew we do a book review series. Here’s the latest.

Kant stop talking about him:

Bosnian landscapes:

Death and the different people involved in the process of death.

If you only look at one thing on the site, please see Dr Rahman Nasir Uddin’s take on rape in India.

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Brain scanning, Nobel laureate endorsements, Poptastic, Xenophobia, Borderlands (sorry I missed this), and why did Manti Te’O drown out the tragic suicide of Aaron Swartz?
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Is there anybody out there?
Holiday period pushes OAC participation to a record low.

Fabric and ritual:
Through Geertz and a handkerchief.

Against identity politics:
Writing with anger, irony and humor about bureaucratic torture.
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If Universities are failing where else do we go?

From development to research:
Oxfam’s new guidelines

Video and ethnography:
In the business world.

Parallel: New York to the OAC.

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