Category Archives: Anthropology

Writing Ethnographies that Everyone Can Read

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Kristen Ghodsee’s new book, From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies that Everyone Can Read, was recently published by the University of Chicago Press (in 2016). The discipline of anthropology desperately needs good writers.  Our writings are often so dense, jargon-packed, and off-putting that I sometimes fear we deserve our reputation

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Rethinking BDS

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A shorter version of this post has just appeared online as a podcast, in coordination with the motion put to a vote among the membership of the American Anthropological Association to boycott Israeli academic institutions.  Here’s the text . . .   The first thing I want to say is that

Academic boycott, Anthropology, Anti-Semitism, BDS, Current Issues, Divestiture, Israel, MidEast, Palestinian rights, Politics and society, Social justice Read more
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