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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

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

Pandemics: agents of global change

It was the early 1990s, while working at the American College of Physicians in Philadelphia, I became interested in epidemiology. … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, Cultural anthropology, 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

Religious Colonizing in Brazil

After Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil, I sort of lost the desire to write anything more about the country. … 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

The Political Economy of Food in an Unequal World-by Keith Hart

Food in a New Economic Order What is ‘new’ about neo-liberalism? It is a world economic order based on selective … 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 Mueller Report: Highlights

The Mueller Report is probably one of the most extensive legal investigations in the history of the United States. Certainly, … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology journals, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Why do Leaders Fail?

This is an opinion piece that some might say loosely fits within the realm of anthropology. And yet, if one … More

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

World’s Most Vital Resource

It is not necessary to explain the process by which algae through millions of years of geological time and chemical … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

The War Against Privacy

In the May-June 1993 issue of Wired Magazine, an article on a group of mathematicians advocating a radical, libertarian, cryptographic … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, anthropology online, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Social Anthropology

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