# anthropological (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover anthropological. Page: Feed: --- ## [Rumour at 30](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/rumour-at-30/) _2026-08-20 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ Thirty years of this book. Reminded today that it’s circa 700 rupees from Bloomsbury India if you like that sort of thing (real life copies I mean): ## [‘I have finally had to perpetrate a book…’ – from ‘Strategy Identity Writing’, a 1986 interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/i-have-finally-had-to-perpetrate-a-book-from-strategy-identity-writing-a-1986-interview-with-gayatri-chakravorty-spivak/) _2026-08-18 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ From ‘Melbourne Journal of Politics’ 1986 originally, reprinted in The Postcolonial Critic, ed Sarah Harasym 1990 ## [‘The problem of multiple Cunards’](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/the-problem-of-multiple-cunards/) _2026-08-18 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ This text is well worth your time… (I have, for this blogsnip, retitled it from a phrase in one of the early paragraphs, apologies, but some of this is excellent, and all of it is, well, dedicated work – much appreciated – check out the link as the pdf does not do it justice –... Continue Reading → ## [Jungle Studies: the state of Anthropology. 2002 Futures 34: 15-31](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/jungle-studies-the-state-of-anthropology-2002-futures-34-15-31/) _2026-08-15 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ The anthropological project, tired and exhausted after years searching for ‘methodological absolution’, remains mired in a spiral of self-doubt and self-indulgent ‘crisis’. Anthropological teaching continues the very complicities that a self-critical reflexivity professed to avoid. Cooption and incorporation, even at the best of times. This essay asks just what would break the cycle of… ## [Slavery and raids in the early colonial Philippines.](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/slavery-and-raids-in-the-early-colonial-philippines/) _2026-08-15 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ Note to self. A debate could be had as to whether the imputation of a local slave trading regime is imposed or copied from outside. No less than the Philippines’ national hero José Rizal had annotated an edition of Antonio de Morga, in which Morga explains that the Spanish, 100 years earlier than his writing... Continue Reading ## [Powis Castle – monstrous collection of booty thieved from India by addled druggie and his daughter-in-law](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/powis-castle-monstrous-collection-of-booty-thieved-from-india-by-addled-druggie-and-his-daughter-in-law/) _2026-08-13 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “The last hereditary Welsh prince, Owain Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, built Powis castle as a craggy fort in the 13th century; the estate was his reward for abandoning Wales to the rule of the English monarchy. But its most spectacular treasures date from a much later period of English conquest and appropriation: Powis is simply... Continue Reading ## [Rebellion](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/rebellion/) _2026-08-12 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ If you saw the film Injustice, about deaths in UK police custody, and then Ken s UltraViolence, or saw any Migrant Media stuff, or if you just want something that is not as BLAND and Bourgeois as Channel Four documentaries \[sic we screened Injustice on Channel 4 from the street using a projector, since... Continue Reading ## [Note for an anthropology of tourism development](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/note-for-an-anthropology-of-tourism-development/) _2026-08-12 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ Anthropologists, somewhat unconsciously, remained for a long time in the position of conservative culture camp commandants—overseers of a pickled-in-aspic view of the native that was not far removed from colonial explorer adventure safari or, at best, pastoralising advocacy and brokerage. In contemporary anthropologies—for example such as the anthropology of tourism when it becomes too close...… ## [Contested Glories of Selective Renovation in West Bengal](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/contested-glories-of-selective-renovation-in-west-bengal/) _2026-08-12 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ Your article, Contested Glories of Selective Renovation in West Bengal, has been published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, and is now available for you to access via Taylor Francis Online. Woop! An eprint link to provide readers with instant access to your article (valid for up to 50... Continue Reading ## [RE](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/re/) _2026-08-05 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ Unbeknownst to each other, my much missed brother and I each got Enfield s about the same time (his a continental) and might have shared notes if he d rode on to his birthday, which would be today. ## [Follow Releases, Get Reminders (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8tLHwVdSG0DH) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a genre or a name and receive reminders on release day — free. ## [Clothes that kill](https://silentbutdeadly.substack.com/p/clothes-that-kill) _2026-08-03 · Kirsten Bell · Silent but Deadly_ An anthropological analysis of why we seem determined to kill ourselves through our clothing choices. ## [frivolity pop](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/frivolity-pop/) _2026-08-02 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ a pop up from some old search topic reports JF saying the following: In his conference presentation John Hutnyk (see this volume) indicated that even to discuss music at a time of global terror and of the demonization of the Asian minority populations across Europe is frivolous . yikes. I cannot remember this from the time,... Continue Reading ## [imogen’s birthday. 20 years missed now. what would you have made of this world?](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/imogens-birthday-20-years-missed-now-what-would-you-have-made-of-this-world/) _2026-07-28 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ Imogen Bunting ## [comments to others #365](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/comments-to-others-365/) _2026-07-21 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ there are many instances of sentences written to specific people love you all that are also just thinking out loud, so this here below is one of those I want to keep to remind myself to take such advice sometimes . \[the context was a long overdue comment on some work sent by a... Continue Reading ## [Book Review “Cine-Politics: Film Stars and Political Existence inSouth India, by M. Madhava Prasad”. In “South Asia” 2018.](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/book-review-cine-politics-film-stars-and-political-existence-insouth-india-by-m-madhava-prasad-in-south-asia-2018/) _2026-07-20 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ Review of Madhava Prasad s 2014 book seems now more than ever Cine-Politics asserts that after a distinct period in which writers were dominant in the movies, the celebrity star system took hold, and this star persona system now acts like a contagion. In the past, and consistent with melodrama, the fragmentary and episodic form of... Continue Reading ## [The Dialectic of Here and There: Anthropology ‘at Home’ and British Asian Communism. In “Social Identities” Vol 11(4). 2005.](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/the-dialectic-of-here-and-there-anthropology-at-home-and-british-asian-communism-in-social-identities-vol-114-2005/) _2026-07-17 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ Asian workers ‘at home’ have been organized, culturally and politically, and have provided a critique of anthropological categorisation themselves by focusing on political and organizational issues. It is salutary to find that the communist or Marxist-inspired authors and activists that should be discussed here were able to provide a critique of eurocentric models of social... Continue Reading ## [‘Liquidity of the Sundarbans: If the Tigers and Cyclones Don’t Get You, the Law Will’](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/07/15/liquidity-of-the-sundarbans-if-the-tigers-and-cyclones-dont-get-you-the-law-will/) _2026-07-14 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ An outpouring of books on the Sundarbans delta and other Bengal waterways immerse us in a new ecological analytic. An amazing liquid world churns at the end of long river systems, the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Meghna and Hooghly. These rivers are sourced in the Himalaya, venerable mountains created when the shifting mass of the Indian subcontinent... Continue Reading ## [the Eighteenth Brumaire of Gaius Balthar](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/the-eighteenth-brumaire-of-gaius-balthar/) _2026-07-13 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire provides commentary on the politics of the February Revolution in France (1848), leading onto an analysis of the to-ing and fro-ing of Louis Bonaparte (the nephew of Napoleon) in the aftermath of this revolution, noting as he takes the presidency that his actions prove that you can’t please all the people all... Continue Reading ## [Nemeses and nameses](https://silentbutdeadly.substack.com/p/nemeses-and-nameses) _2026-07-13 · Kirsten Bell · Silent but Deadly_ Anthropological reflections on sharing one's name, especially with someone famous. ## [The chapatti story](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/07/12/the-chapatti-story/) _2026-07-12 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ The displacement of Marxist categories in the discussion of hybridity also alibis and parallels the displacement and replacement of third worldist solidarity work and internationalist politics with a cosmopolitan ‘post-colonial elite’ politics. This joins up with a stay-at-home-lecturing-from-afar approach by the white left, incapable of engaging a struggle against capital at home, co-constituted… ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/n0vbuKl73lZz) _2026-07-12 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [The Authority of Style – Social Analysis 1987](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/the-authority-of-style-social-analysis-1987/) _2026-07-10 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ In Paul Rabinow s monograph Symbolic Domination (1975) the anthropologist examines the history of a Moroccan village and its dominant lineage descended from a seventeenth century saint Sidi-Lachen. A second book, Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (1977), examines the anthropologist s relationships with the informants of the first book, whose names have been changed to protect their... Continue… ## [Transgressions of Fieldwork/Filed Works](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/transgressions-of-fieldwork-filed-works/) _2026-07-07 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ Chapter 15 of Celebrating Transgression Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Culture: A book in Honour of Klaus Peter Köpping Edited by Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk 2005, Berghahn Books ## [Corpographies of Public History:](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/corpographies-of-public-history/) _2026-07-04 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ Corpographies of Public History: The Sequester of Statues in Flagstaff Gardens, Barrackpore, West Bengal Asian Review of World Histories ISSN: 2287-9811 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-bja10107 Abstract: Public history means contested interpretations in public. Yet complicated discussion of colonial-era events can be restricted behind heritage façades. At the same time, the question of whose… ## [The new translation of Leopoldina Fortunati’s “The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital”](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/the-new-translation-of-leopoldina-fortunatis-the-arcana-of-reproduction-housewives-prostitutes-workers-and-capital/) _2026-06-28 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ More to say on this soon as it is invaluable for the book I am working on and is so much more than the old Autnomedia version (alas, Italian was beyond me, I am guilty for not looking up the original). The new trans is like a whole new book, especially the last few chapters.... Continue Reading ## [The eyes have it](https://silentbutdeadly.substack.com/p/the-eyes-have-it) _2026-06-22 · Kirsten Bell · Silent but Deadly_ An analysis of mutual glances and their sociological significance. ## [Major Oak to ground control…](https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2026/06/21/major-oak-to-ground-control/) _2026-06-21 · john hutnyk · Trinketization_ Its not such a clever thing to treat trees like trinkets, but this one became a tourist attraction, and tourism, of course, often kills what it loves. ## [Spam, phishing and Eric Clapton's guitar](https://silentbutdeadly.substack.com/p/spam-phishing-and-eric-claptons-guitar) _2026-06-01 · Kirsten Bell · Silent but Deadly_ An analysis of spam and the question of what it actually is. ## [ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION](https://intlekt.io/2026/05/21/artificial-intelligence-and-the-human-condition/) _2026-05-21 · Pierre Lévy · (untitled)_ Abstract This article reflects on the transformation of personhood in the digital age, drawing on an invariant anthropological schema — the hermeneutical cross — which articulates an existential axis (natural person / transcendence) and a hermeneutical axis (corpus / interpretive keys). Three historical regimes succeed and stratify one another: the manuscript regime, centred on a Lire la suite… ## [Civil inattention and its opposites](https://silentbutdeadly.substack.com/p/civil-inattention-and-its-opposites) _2026-05-11 · Kirsten Bell · Silent but Deadly_ How we engage - or, rather, don't engage - with each other in public space in the interests of maintaining the illusion of privacy. ## [More stories from the video store trenches](https://silentbutdeadly.substack.com/p/more-stories-from-the-video-store) _2026-04-20 · Kirsten Bell · Silent but Deadly_ Reflections on moving from a local video store to a corporate-owned hellhole. ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JBFX66Wg5RYP) _2026-04-20 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [On the personality of fonts](https://silentbutdeadly.substack.com/p/font-wars-on-the-personality-of-fonts) _2026-03-30 · Kirsten Bell · Silent but Deadly_ An anthropological analysis of fonts and fontroversies. ## [Collective Intelligence and AI: A New Frontier for Education](https://intlekt.io/2026/03/26/collective-intelligence-and-ai-a-new-frontier-for-education/) _2026-03-26 · Pierre Lévy · (untitled)_ My goal is to encourage teachers to mobilize collective intelligence (CI) in the service of learning and to take advantage of the new pedagogical possibilities opened by Artificial Intelligence (AI)—a tool our students are already using, albeit not always appropriately. I will begin by explaining why collective intelligence should be an integral part of our Lire la suite "Collective Intelligence… ## [Why backpacks on transit are so irritating](https://silentbutdeadly.substack.com/p/why-backpacks-on-transit-are-so-irritating) _2026-03-09 · Kirsten Bell · Silent but Deadly_ A pseudo-phenomenological analysis of a daily annoyance. ## [Spring 2026 H. Russell Bernard Student Paper Prize](https://www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2026/03/spring-2026-h-russell-bernard-student.html) _2026-03-02 · Society for Anthropological Sciences · Society for Anthropological Sciences_ The Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) meets annually with the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). For more information, please go to their website– https://www.appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting . The meetings will be held in Albuquerque March 17-21, 2026. SAS is proud to sponsor the bi-annual H. Russell Bernard Student Paper Prize of $500.00 for the winner and also two Travel Awards… ## [Saving your own skin](https://silentbutdeadly.substack.com/p/skin-deep) _2026-02-16 · Kirsten Bell · Silent but Deadly_ An anthropological analysis of skin off rather than on the body. ## [2026 Preliminary Program for the Society for Anthropological Sciences/Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings](https://www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2026/02/2026-preliminary-program-for-society.html) _2026-02-06 · Unknown · Society for Anthropological Sciences_ The full preliminary program for the meetings is hosted by the Society for Applied Anthropology . Below are the Society for Anthropological Science sessions: Thursday, March 19 Cultural Adaptation In Global Mental Health (SAS) — Fireplace, 9:00-10:45 am CHAIRS: PLACEK, Caitlyn and KALJEE, Linda (Henry Ford Hlth System) KALJEE, Linda Marie (Henry Ford Global Hlth Initiative), AHMEDANI, Brian (Henry… ## [Learning in collective intelligence with artificial intelligence](https://intlekt.io/2026/01/30/learning-in-collective-intelligence-with-artificial-intelligence/) _2026-01-30 · Pierre Lévy · (untitled)_ Ignorant, we will be manipulated and misled by language models. By contrast, the more learned we are, the better we can master an AI which, make no mistake, is becoming the technical environment of thought, the new sensorium. ## [The cat's meow](https://silentbutdeadly.substack.com/p/the-cats-meow) _2026-01-26 · Kirsten Bell · Silent but Deadly_ An anthropological analysis of our relationship with cats ## [AI is at the Heart of the New Communication Ecosystem](https://intlekt.io/2025/11/30/ai-is-at-the-heart-of-the-new-communication-ecosystem/) _2025-11-30 · Pierre Lévy · (untitled)_ Ethical issues cannot be limited to models: they must extend to the creation of the data that drives them, i.e. to all of our online behavior. \[...\] We generally focus on the direct reception of our messages, but we must bear in mind that we contribute indirectly – through the models we train – to answering our contemporaries' questions, writing their texts, teaching students, guiding policies,… ## [2025 Society for Anthropological Sciences Carol R. Ember Book Prize - Manvir Singh](https://www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2025/11/2025-society-for-anthropological.html) _2025-11-27 · Unknown · Society for Anthropological Sciences_ In Shamanism: The Timeless Religion , Manvir Singh combines ethnography with cross-cultural analysis and insights from the cognitive sciences to explain why shamanic practices reliably emerge across human societies. He shows that shamanism endures as a powerful, recurrent cultural form because it taps into universal psychological mechanisms while adapting to diverse historical and social contexts.… ## [Society for Anthropological Sciences Sessions at the 2025 AAA Meetings in New Orleans](https://www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2025/11/society-for-anthropological-sciences.html) _2025-11-18 · Unknown · Society for Anthropological Sciences_ The following are the Society for Anthropological Sciences sponsored sessions at this year's American Anthropological Association meetings in New Orleans. AAA SAS Session - Anthropology Beyond Academic Silos - 4:15-5:45 PM, Thursday, Nov 20, in Marriott Studio 8 Organizer: Elizabeth Derderian, Brandeis University, Department of Anthropology Critical conceptualizations of health: Community-led… ## [Human Intelligence, the Secret of Artificial Intelligence](https://intlekt.io/2025/11/14/human-intelligence-the-secret-of-artificial-intelligence/) _2025-11-14 · Pierre Lévy · (untitled)_ Artificial intelligence is mysterious: we speak to it and it seems to understand what we say. Proof that it understands is that it responds with text or speech that makes sense, and sometimes more sense than an ordinary human could articulate. How is this possible? The Success of Language Models Certainly, research on artificial intelligence Lire la suite "Human Intelligence, the Secret of… ## [Humanism and artificial intelligence](https://intlekt.io/2025/11/04/humanism-and-artificial-intelligence/) _2025-11-04 · Pierre Lévy · (untitled)_ If humanism was born with the alphabet in a literate environment and was reborn with the printing press, what becomes of it when digital technology becomes the dominant symbolic technology? ## [Fall 2025 H. Russell Bernard Student Paper Prize](https://www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2025/10/fall-2025-h-russell-bernard-student.html) _2025-10-10 · Unknown · Society for Anthropological Sciences_ We are pleased to announce that the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) is sponsoring a Student Awards competition, offering a prize for the best student paper that meets rigorous scientific criteria in anthropology. In addition, two awards will be given for outstanding presentations. This year's SAS meeting will take place at the AAA meetings in New Orleans, from November 19-23. As part of… ## [Society for Anthropological Sciences Carol R. Ember Book Prize](https://www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2025/09/society-for-anthropological-sciences.html) _2025-09-28 · Unknown · Society for Anthropological Sciences_ Submissions are now open for the 2025 SAS Carol R. Ember Book Prize. This prize recognizes books whose significant theoretical, empirical, or methodological contributions to anthropology embody the mission of SAS to advance the scientific study of human societies. Single or multi-authored books are eligible, but edited volumes are not eligible. Submissions must have a publication date of 2024 or… ## [2026 Spring SAS Meeting with SfAA - Call for Papers](https://www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2025/07/2026-spring-sas-meeting-with-sfaa-call.html) _2025-07-25 · Unknown · Society for Anthropological Sciences_ The 2026 Spring Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) meeting will be with the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from March 17-21, 2025! We seek organized sessions, panels, and roundtables (in-person or online) as well as volunteered papers (in-person or online) and posters (in-person only). Abstracts are limited to 100 words (excluding title and author… ## [Call for Nominations — 2026 John J. Carty Award](https://www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2025/07/call-for-nominations-2026-john-j-carty.html) _2025-07-25 · Unknown · Society for Anthropological Sciences_ The John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science Selection Committee seeks to identify outstanding candidates for the 2026 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science , presented by the National Academy of Sciences. Nominees for this award are not limited to the membership of the NAS. The 2026 John J. Carty Award recognizes noteworthy and distinguished accomplishments in the social… ## [A meditation on consciousness](https://intlekt.io/2025/07/14/a-meditation-on-consciousness/) _2025-07-14 · Pierre Lévy · (untitled)_ By Pierre Lévy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Abstract This article explores the nature of human consciousness through a comprehensive philosophical analysis, distinguishing between phenomenal consciousness, shared with animals, and discursive consciousness, unique to humans. Drawing on the philosophical tradition from Antiquity (Aristotle, Plotinus) to modern philosophy (Descartes,… ## [Are social networks and AI responsible for our misfortunes?](https://intlekt.io/2025/06/21/are-social-networks-and-ai-responsible-for-our-misfortunes/) _2025-06-21 · Pierre Lévy · (untitled)_ For more than thirty years, the majority of journalists, politicians, teachers, and all those who shape opinion have not stopped denouncing the dangers of computing, then of the Internet, and now of artificial intelligence. I would do nothing very useful if I added my lamentations to theirs. ## [Spring 2025 Award Winners](https://www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2025/03/spring-2025-award-winners.html) _2025-03-29 · Unknown · Society for Anthropological Sciences_ Congratulations to student paper award winners during our joint meeting with the Society for Applied Anthropology 2025 Annual Meetings in Portland, Oregon! H. Russell Bernard Student Paper Prize Thomas Long, University of Manchester — Divided We Stand, United Our Call: Conceptualising the Divisions in Baptist Religion as Fractures Travel Awards Erik Fanin, Goethe-University Frankfurt — Not just…