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Category: Ethnography

Ethnography is a research method designed to explore cultural phenomena where the researcher observes society from the point of view of the subject of the study. An ethnography is a means to represent graphically and in writing the culture of a group. The resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group. Ethnography, as the empirical data on human societies and cultures, was pioneered in the biological, social, and cultural branches of anthropology but has also become popular in the social sciences in general—sociology, communication studies, history, wherever people study ethnic groups, formations, compositions, resettlements, social welfare characteristics, materiality, spirituality, and a people’s ethnogenesis.

How the informal economy took over the World by Keith Hart – Finale

The Euro crisis: an episode in the history of money. The monetary crisis that has overwhelmed the eurozone of late … More

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

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

How the informal economy took over the world by Keith Hart

A la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time) The idea of an informal economy was born at … More

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

Seeing Culture Everywhere: A Book Review by Keith Hart

The authors of this well-written book tell how they were pushed by their editor into writing for a general audience. … More

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

Why George Floyd Matters

With all due respect and no malice intended but the George Floyd murder is not the first time African American … More

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

Pandemics: Agents of Global Change – Part 2

The Economic and Commercial Impact of Pandemics: By now, the COVID-19 influenza outbreak has reached practically all parts of the … More

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

New Preface to Globalization from Below: The World’s Other Economy by Keith Hart

IV. The informal economy has taken over the World The idea of an informal economy was born in the 1970s … More

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

The Subjugation of Liberal Democracy

Are we witnessing in our lifetime the slow destruction of liberal democracy? Have we exhausted the limits of a political … More

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

The Collapse of Societies

By now, the entire world is aware of the historic and unprecedented events occurring in the United States.  It seems … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology journals, 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

The Horror of War – Part 2

It was Christmas Eve and it just so happened that I pulled guard duty. The post I was assigned to … More

Anthropology, 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

An Anthropologist in the World Revolution – Pt. 1 by Keith Hart

Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, well-known for his inspiring YouTube lectures and documentary shorts, … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, 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

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

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

The Bitcoin Controversy

Most people have already heard of Bitcoin. However, very few know what it is or how it originated. Many people … More

Anthropology, 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

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

What Anthropologists Really Do-by Keith Hart

The Summary The new anthropologist is a self-appointed people’s representative in the double sense of writing them up and acting … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, anthropology studies, 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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