Been a while since I posted anything, though I’ve had a number of things I’ve wanted to share. But, this post struck me today as a thoroughly apt observation: You Just Don’t Get It John Stuart Mill says this …the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
On Not Getting It
02 Jun 2010 at 14:56
by Adam
in Anthropology, Society
tags: anthropology, discourse, Philosophy, Politics, Society
Culturally Informed
22 Jan 2010 at 13:36
by Adam
in Anthropology
tags: aid, anthropology, culture, haiti, NGOs, Politics, Society
“…collaborative, culturally-informed aid must replace the age-old top-down kind of aid.” From this anthro blog post on understanding the people you’re trying to help and helping them in ways that are best for them instead of imposing your own assumptions. Here is what poor Haitians define as elements of a good society: 1. relative economic [...]
Some Mildly Related Things
I gave before I read this at Shakesville, as I’ve always liked Doctors Without Borders, but it made me feel even better about my choice: DWB was operating three medical centers in Haiti, providing some of the only accessible care in Port-au-Prince for poor pregnant women, new mothers, and infant children. All three of the [...]
Graeber Utopianism
01 Jan 2010 at 11:30
by Adam
in Anthropology
tags: anarchism, anthropology, capitalism, debt, intellectualism, Politics, utopianism
What American academics expect from France is an intellectual high, the ability to feel one is participating in wild, radical ideas – demonstrating the inherent violence within Western conceptions of truth or humanity, that sort of thing – but in ways that do not imply any program of political action; or, usually, any responsibility to [...]
Quoted For Thought: Richard Rorty
More from “Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty,” available for free here (short 67-page PDF): [p. 16] RR: …the Vietnam War, Watergate, and the loss of public confidence in the presidency and the government all conspired to move the student radicals into non-majoritarian politics. In other words, the Marxist claim that the [...]
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