🚨 On May 1, 2025, in cities across the US, we will gather in solidarity—honoring the legacy of workers who organized for the 8-hour day.
Today, we face a new threat. A billionaire-backed minority is quietly reshaping our democracy.
BUT a peaceful People’s Movement is growing. 👉 www.FiftyFifty.one
Material Thinking: How Anthropology Lost Its Way(?!) & a Vision to Repair the Rupture youtu.be/hyCQWCYDA6c?...
“The Origins &Spread of Modern Humans” youtu.be/3VTcnfa5gxI?... lecture has been getting a lot of recent views. I will say there is some danger in promoting biocultural transformation ideas, as it potentially leads back into racial stereotypes, this is my attempt to address
“Human Origins and the Earliest Hominins” youtu.be/sy5itACq6Bo?... has been a recent "most-viewed" lecture. Teaching human evolution seemed radical in some contexts 20 years ago, seems kind of quaint now
This is a post about a crypto strategic reserve
A "Crypto Strategic Reserve" is a HUGE grift. The US will buy billions of dollars in crypto from crypto barons. OUR taxpayer money in exchange for an imaginary thing.
“Between noise and silence: on the meaning of sound” youtu.be/FAUBDtaRU7Q?... usually my anthro "theory" videos don't get many views, but this one had a little more interest
“What makes anthropology ‘anthropological’?” youtu.be/8DKla43RkuQ?... my most popular video in a while
2/ The 4 Fields of Anthropology (for Intro-to-Anthro 2025) youtu.be/gW8VUJS8Cis?... and now this follow-up is at the top of my YouTube channel :)
What is Anthropology, for Intro-to-Anthro 2025, first class! youtu.be/b4B6tzsnnsE?... (and quickly blasted to the top of my channel watchlist)
Anthropology of Kinship youtu.be/YHyZ7vdIJNk?... from Cultural Anthropology 2020 but somehow now trending on my channel (and the most watched video by far from that 2020 class) see also www.livinganthropologically.com/cultural-ant...
Happy New Year. 11/11
Sitting down to compose a hopeful message for 2025 is a tough ask given the year we’ve just had. Even glib sentiments are hard to come by. The defeat of pro-democracy forces in the US presidential election still weighs like a heavy anchor on my attempts to move on. 1/11
An anthropology to solve real-world problems: using People Before Markets to examine how people approach work, food, housing, healthcare, climate change--and what we can learn from their solutions www.livinganthropologically.com/people-befor...
Tim Ingold's Imagining for Real as a fresh approach to #anthropology and #theory. Exploring how imagination emerges from real-world engagement, transforming how we think to create better #futures www.livinganthropologically.com/imagining-fo...
2/ Making Strange Things Familiar: Religion, Magic, and Baseball youtu.be/mvfbgbjb5X4?...
Religion: From Marx & Weber to Modern Cultural Anthropology 2024 youtu.be/B01Sh7muvT8?... one of the fastest tours through Durkheim-Marx-Weber-Freud just so I can tell you they were all wrong and you should read Audrey Richards instead
Why Study Politics? War, States & Human Nature | Cultural Anthropology 2024 youtu.be/Ix68hHNFy5k?...
Why Blaming "Human Nature" for Climate Change is Wrong youtu.be/EhG3IQaCnTE?...
Migration vs Immigration: Rethinking Human Movement & Borders | Cultural Anthropology 2024 youtu.be/ci2awePpCmc?...
Class & Inequality: Marx, Weber, Bourdieu | Cultural Anthropology 2024 youtu.be/bAaswm-OcGc?...
How Sugar & Silver Built the Modern World: Global Economy Before Europe in Cultural Anthropology 2024 youtu.be/EZR_xZJklTA?... Newly transcribed! And revisiting the persecution of Haitians for the presidential campaign
Today, we hold the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting and their families in our hearts.
It's been 12 years. The scourge of gun violence is still horrific.
The Democratic Party must remain steadfast to our commitment to commonsense gun violence prevention—and protecting kids.
Time for my regular gripe about how “traditional” gender ideologies are not really traditional at all 👆 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Race, Biology, Power: Understanding Modern Racism | Anthropology Explained youtu.be/aCAQv0U5km4?... Newly transcribed!
Trending for my channel: youtu.be/vghgs6uw9x8?... I thought I did OK, but Claude AI wanted me to note that "the lecturer is slightly imprecise when discussing Darwin's adoption of 'survival of the fittest'--while Spencer coined it, Darwin embraced the phrase more readily than suggested."
Can confirm.
Last class in Intro to Anthropology 2024: “Anthropology, Environment, Better Futures” youtu.be/f0XchlagfxY?... and really maybe the last time I'll be able to say "White supremacy" and "structural racism" in a classroom
Archaeology and Anthropology insights on societal change and community resilience help us understand the danger of Trump symbolic victories www.livinganthropologically.com/trump-symbol...
Sadly, it seems for anthropology classes these villages are likely to be forever locked in time as a "case study" of polyandry. I'll try to find out more for my next teaching go-around
My reply: Thanks! Honestly, I hadn't read much about polyandry since Goldstein's "When Brother's Share a Wife" 🙂 My current textbook, The Human Story amzn.to/4bvJxw0 references Levine's work from 1982-1983, but no update.
