"Explanations" of Male Dominance
To explain the origins of female subordination we need a theory that accounts for the control of women's work by men.
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Posts tagged: anthropology
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Bruno Latour: Occupy Earth
In General Intellects, I offer condensed versions of twenty-one leading thinkers across a range of fields. but I did not include figures in anthropology, as I am still working my way through reading in what's going on there. I have been finding some exciting stuff. Elsewhere, I wrote about Anna Tsing and Achille Mbembe and Eduardo Viveros de Castro. Here I offer a critical account of the recent work of Bruno Latour on the occasion of the publication of his lectures Facing Gaia.Â
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Rumbas in the Barrio: Personal Lives in a Venezuelan Collectivist Project
The autobiography workshops of the Misión Cultura, instituted in 2005 as part of a broader Bolivarian project, aimed to “give words, voice, to us, those always silenced” and build up a popular alternative archive of people’s histories.
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Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: In and Against the Human
In General Intellects, I offer condensed versions of twenty-one leading thinkers across a range of fields. but I did not include figures in anthropology, as I am still working my way through reading in what's going on there. I have been finding some exciting stuff. Elsewhere, I wrote about Anna Tsing and Achille Mbembe. Here's my report on the work of Brazilian anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, author of the brilliant Cannibal Metaphysics, including notes on a recent collaboration with the Brazilian philosopher Déborah Danowski, called The Ends of the World.
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Reconceptualizing Family History
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Reconceptualizing Family History (Part II)
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Primate Colonies and the Extraction of Value
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From Kinship to Geopolitics: A conversation with Maurice Godelier
