It is important to understand that for more than fifty years, American foreign and defense policies such as EUCOM, PCOM, … More
Category: Social Cultural Anthropology
Social Cultural Anthropologists examine social patterns and practices across cultures, with a special interest in how people live in particular places and how they organize, govern, and create meaning. A hallmark of sociocultural anthropology is its concern with similarities and differences, both within and among societies, and its attention to race, sexuality, class, gender, and nationality. Research in sociocultural anthropology is distinguished by its emphasis on participant observation.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Horror of War – Part 1
With all the violence in the world and the ever growing movement of mankind toward more violence, it appears there … More
The Virus of Violence
In the study of epidemiology, one has an opportunity to learn about communicable and non-communicable diseases. This curriculum is usually … More
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
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
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
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
The Bitcoin Controversy
Most people have already heard of Bitcoin. However, very few know what it is or how it originated. Many people … More
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
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
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
Perspectives in Anthropology 