Theory is the New Black!

This is the blog for Wake Forest University's Anthropological Theory class for Spring 2014. Get ready for challenging, probing, insightful sociocultural critiques to challenge everything you know about culture and being human!

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Critique of Appadurai

In his piece Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy , social-cultural anthropologist Arjun Appadurai talks about the evo...

Structuralism in the West(ern)

Whilst I was in the midst of final exams this past week, one of my many assignments happened to be about film. I was taking an introductory...

A Call to Sympathy: Critique of Edwards' Counterinsurgency Article

I have always enjoyed learning new languages. Or, at least, I like having studied a language, even though I generally hate the actual...

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Monsters, Angels, and Demons, Oh My! PoMo in Supernatural

***Spoiler Alert!*** I'm writing about the television show Supernatural. It's a great show. I don't want to spoil any of the p...

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

The Triangle...In the Golden Triangle

Ok. So. I know I already made two cultural posts but I really wanted to write about this because I think it's really important and fas...

Turner and Theatre

Turner’s main argument in his “Symbols in Ndembu Culture” is that people are frequently unaware of the symbolic meanings behind both their e...

Monday, May 5, 2014

Cult Television and Functionalism

Several months ago, the BBC ran a special on the cult classic television program, Doctor Who. The purpose of this special program was not t...

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