Carole McGranahan

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On Training Anthropologists Rather than Professors

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On Training Anthropologists Rather than Professors

There is something rotten in academia right now. This idea is at the heart of David Platzer and Anne Allison’s essay “Academic Precarity in American Anthropolog... More

Zora Neale Hurston and Gerald Berreman

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Zora Neale Hurston and Gerald Berreman

This past week, I’ve been writing on Donald Trump and the anthropology of lying, and I reread Veena Das’s (1998) article on rumors and the social production of ... More

Self-Immolation as Protest in Tibet

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Self-Immolation as Protest in Tibet

Tibet has no history of self-immolation as sacrifice, religious offering, or political protest. Yet, in the last year alone, roughly thirty-five Tibetans have s... More

Background Links For 'Self-Immolation as Protest in Tibet'

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Background Links For 'Self-Immolation as Protest in Tibet'

The Tibetan Self-immolations: Who, What, When, Where Tibetan: http://www.rangzen.net/downloads/maps/Map_TsampaRevolution_20120401_BO.jpg Chinese: http://www.ra... More

Teaching Tibet in a Time of Precarious Emotion

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Teaching Tibet in a Time of Precarious Emotion

On more days than I could have ever anticipated, I start my Anthropology of Tibet class by saying, “Since we last met, a young Tibetan monk self-immolated and d... More