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Global and Critical perspectives on Cultural Change
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From: aloha12u <[log in to unmask]>
To: david.zeitlyn <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 9:54 pm
Subject: Re: history and anthroplogy
Aloha to all:
The Scottish Enlightenment looked to the New World for models that would explain the inequalities of
humanity for nature, culture and the contradictions of civilization and it sparked critical thought that ultimately has changed the world in furious cycles of social disequilibrium. Today we have the globe at our fingertips and we are working from models of older texts as though these were cult formulas instead of theoretical threads. Anthropology today, if it matters, needs to get into the front lines as the thinkers of the Enlightenment and interpret what is going on with humanity and the earth. The context of history is arranging and rearranging itself as water through a storm drain. If we are to consider a relevant global ethnographic depiction as a foundation, would it necessarily remain static, localized and ethnically homogenized? That world does not exist anymore outside of the larger context and the full spectrum anthropology is waiting to be formulated for the 21st century.
Consider creating anthropological global frameworks that raise questions and point to visions of discovery. How would anthropology "objectively" approach power relations in a transformational world flow. What would Ethnology say about a mere 60 years of recent "history" if it were to look like this:
The men behind Barack Obama part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MouUJNG8f2k&feature=related
Uploaded by 2008nmo on Oct 29, 2008
The men behind Barack Obama part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-KJCMWcoms&feature=endscreen&NR=1
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Which makes this alternate report worth noting with some gravity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NquIKlMQ4U&feature=related
BARACK OBAMA is a CIA CREATION
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvI6JqiAZjs&feature=related
Webster Tarpley: CIA fuels 'mob rule' in Arab world to change power
Uploaded by RussiaToday on Jan 29, 2011..........Unrest in Egypt comes weeks after a month of chaos in Tunisia, which saw 80 deaths and the president being toppled before fleeing into exile. Investigative journalist, Webster Tarpley, told RT, Washington wants to put new leaders in power in the Arab world to follow the U.S. agenda.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y72CA2Xx9N4
CIA Covert Action in Iran, Vietnam, Laos, the Congo, Cuba, and Guatemala: Documentary Film (1965) (51:47 minutes)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution
Colour [sic] revolution
What would a controlled comparison look like from an anthropological perspective for:
1 Colour revolutions
1.1 Philippines
1.2 Yugoslavia
1.3 Former USSR states
1.4 Related usages in the Middle East
2 Influencing factors
2.1 Anti-Communist revolutions
2.2 Student movements
2.3 Soros foundation and U.S. influence
3 Reactions and connected movements in other countries
3.1 Armenia
3.2 Azerbaijan
3.3 Belarus
3.4 Burma
3.5 China
3.6 Moldova
3.7 Mongolia
3.8 Pakistan
3.9 Russia
3.10 Uzbekistan
4 Backlash in non-CIS countries
5 See also
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links
The entire question has to do with urgent interpretations that are substantial and relevant and that have predictive power. If ANTHROPOLOGY MATTERS... PROVE IT TO ME! I'm NEW SCHOOL and my anthropology has been in exile for decades now.
ALOHA & Regards to all:
Bruce E. Woych
Cultural Ecologist / Anthropology Research
Kingston, New York USA
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Sent: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 3:58 am
Subject: history and anthroplogy
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Dear all - since others have asked here's what I sent direct to James.
I think the classic starting point is
Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1962. History and Anthropology. In Essays in
Social Anthropology. London: Faber & Faber.
Then, in no particular order
Many articles by Tom McCaskie on Asante
Maurice Bloch 'From Blessing to Violence'
Comaroff J, Comaroff J. 1991. /Of Revelation and Revolution. /Volume
1:/Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa.
/Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press
Comaroff J, Comaroff J. 1992. /Ethnography and the Historical
Imagination/. Oxford: Westview
there's also
Sahlins and Obeysekere debate about Captain Cook
and Sahlins' Islands in History
Cohn BS. 1987. /An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other
Essays/. Delhi/Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press
and Dirks his student
For anthropologists in archives I've got something forthcoming:
2012. Anthropology In and Of the Archives*: *Possible Futures and
Contingent Pasts. Archives as Anthropological Surrogates. Annual Reviews
in Anthropology DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-092611-145721
best wishes
davidz
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David Zeitlyn,
Professor of Social Anthropology (research)
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology,
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography,
51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK
http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/about-us/staff/academic/prof-david-zeitlyn/
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2728/
http://about.me/david.zeitlyn
Google Scholar profile including h-index:
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lYK4auAAAAAJÊ
Oxford's open online anthropology journal: JASO online.
http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/publications/JASO/
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