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Perspectives in Anthropology: the use of internet communication technologies to list and display books, textbooks and publications concerned with the study of anthropology.

Trump’s attack on American “democracy” by Keith Hart – Part 1

Donald Trump and the Republican Party Donald Trump may not have expected to win the 2016 presidential election. Once he … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology lectures, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography

World Orders Old and New – Latin America

The Colossus of the South “When the resources of that vast country are taken into account,” the editors of the … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology lectures, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography

The Chomsky Chronicles – Wild Man in the Wings

Noam Chomsky is the quintessential pioneering linguist, intellectual and political activist of the last fifty years. He is an American, … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology lectures, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography

How the informal economy took over the World by Keith Hart – Part 3

The demise of national capitalism. To talk of the world economy being “informalized” suggests that there is a global rule-system, … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

How the informal economy took over the World – Part 2 by Keith Hart

The dialectics of form. “General Forms have their vitality in Particulars, and every Particular is a Man” (William Blake). Most … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Cultural Critique: Anthropological – by Keith Hart

Cultural critique, the use of anthropology to draw critical attention to institutions that readers take for granted, is as old … More

Anthropology, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Agriculture in Human Evolution – by Keith Hart

In his Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1754) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was concerned, not with individual … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology lectures, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Filtered Realities

In order to proceed, we must first acknowledge the more than three decades of work by a man who has … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology lectures, Cultural anthropology, Social Anthropology

The Horror of War – Part 3

Sometime in June 1971, an incident occurred that completely changed my attitude toward the US Army. In fact, I was … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

An Anthropologist in the World Revolution – Pt. 2 by Keith Hart

As we approached the millennium, with the dotcom boom roaring away, I wanted to write a book that would sum … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography

The Real Race Problem – Part 2

On the eve of the one-hundred and eighth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’ newspaper The Crisis, we are presenting, in … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology lectures, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography

The Real Race Problem – Part 1

  On the eve of the one-hundred and eighth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’ newspaper The Crisis, we are presenting, … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

The Culture of Corruption

Many of us know that political corruption is not new to the world. It is an unsavory, human practice with … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology lectures, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Teaching Anthropology in 2018

Recently, a colleague contacted me with a very interesting and specific question. At the time, I was on the road … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography
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There’s Something in the Water

A recent death in the family necessitated a return to the United States after living abroad for the past ten … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

The Struggle for Power by Keith Hart

Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Nations: Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World by Ruchir Sharma, London: … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Anthropology and the New Human Universal by Keith Hart

World society today resembles nothing so much as the eighteenth century ancient régime that Kant had every reason to believe … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Gun Violence in American Schools

There is something terribly wrong going on in American schools today. A silent epidemic is spreading throughout the country like … More

Anthropology, anthropology lectures, anthropology online, anthropology studies, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Brazil’s Dichotomous Treatment of Corruption – PT 2

After the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship, the Liberal Front Party (LFP), Democratic Social Party (PMDB) and Brazilian Social … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, Brazil, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography

Brazil’s Dichotomous Treatment of Corruption – PT 1

Brazil is a country saturated with corruption. From the small, family-owned mom and pop neighborhood grocery store to the hallowed … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Latin American Studies

The Open Anthropology Cooperative: Towards an Online Public Anthropology-by Keith Hart

We attempt here to explore the relationship between anthropology, social media and public engagement through a web-based network that we … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Preface to the Coming World Crisis-by Keith Hart

Trump’s election has accelerated talk on the left of the end of (neo-) liberalism and the rise of fascism in … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, anthropology online, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Mess in the Middle East

Many people throughout the Western world do not understand what is happening in the Middle East. Much of the confusion … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology
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The Second American Revolution

Well, it only took about two-hundred and forty years but the greatest fear of the writers of the Constitution of … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, anthropology online, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Brexit: Where once was an empire-by Keith Hart

Separation from Europe has opened up the real possibility that the United Kingdom will break up. Scotland is already bent … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

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