What I am up to
I want to thank Kerim and all the Savage Minds folks for giving me the opportunity to share my work and thoughts. Its an especially nice opportunity for me because my relationship to the mainstream of...
View ArticleEthnography is like fishing…(h/t Marcel Mauss and James Ferguson)
I have gotten a couple of comments regarding methods, access, etc. (thanks for the comments!); I will get to those issues later this week. Today I thought I would give a description of the early...
View ArticlePower in Plain Sight, or, why studying up is actually not as difficult as you...
Studying up is no longer rare in anthropology—in fact, it seems to me that it was never really as rare as anthropology’s self-understanding makes it out to be. Despite this there continue to be a...
View ArticleSome final thoughts on studying…up? over? sideways?
The comments on my last couple of posts, along with this and this have had me mulling over the complexities of studying “elites” (whatever that fuzzy if useful term means), particularly those with whom...
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