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!

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The Complexity and Deception of "Knowledge"

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An Analysis of “A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences” by George E. Marcus and Michael M.J. Fischer Marcus and Fischer bring...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

Cracks in the bell curve

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Public anthropology addresses important topics beyond the academia realm, applying an anthropological lens to real world circumstances.   M...
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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Educational Injustice as a model of Post Modernism

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As many of you know, my research is located in rural Nepal. I work with the lowest caste or Dalit community in many rural areas almost 6 h...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Are the Linguists to Blame?

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Bourdieu is an influential practice theorist who is known for his ideas of fields and symbolic domination. In the article we read for class...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Bias, Bias Everywhere. When does it end?

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Sally Slocum was a feminist anthropologist who is known for her work “Women the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology” in which she reinterp...
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Peak Beard

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                                      http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27023992   I was on Twitter the other day, and thi...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

White's Law and the Technoscape - A Neo-evolutionist Look at Appadurai's Globalization

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While reading Appadurai’s article, Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy , I began to think about Leslie White and his ...
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