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Immigrants, fear, and media spectacles (yes, we have been here before)
This post was written and published in October 2024. It discusses the work of UC Irvine anthropologist Leo Chavez. His ideas are as relevant as ever here in 2025. Oh look, immigration is once again one of the big issues this election cycle. This is so shocking. Oh, right. It’s not shocking at all. Immigration… — read more
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Shadowed Lives: On immigration and anthropology
Here is a slightly updated excerpt from a piece I wrote as an introduction for the anthropologies project back in 2011: The year was 2005. I was a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working on my BA in anthropology. This was my second year, I think, and I was taking a class… — read more
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Anthropology in an age of ‘Dangerous Nonsense’ (Part 1)
This post was first published on Savage Minds in 2017. It’s hard to believe this was written that long ago! I have been teaching Neil Postman’s book ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ as part of a course on culture, media, and society since around 2014. This one ends with a ‘To be continued’ and promise of… — read more
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Revisiting Gould on the death of .400 hitting
This post was originally published in summer 2024 on my website. Last summer I wrote a series on Anthrodendum about beaches and baseball. I plan to do a bit more of the same this summer. Considering everything that’s going on in the world these days, this may be a retreat into escapism, and I’ll own… — read more
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Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 3)
This series was originally posted on Anthrodendum in 2023. I am republishing it here as a part of a renewed effort to look at the intersection of sports, power, and culture (via baseball mostly). Here is Part 3: In the last post of this installment of the summer anthropologies series, I ended with the point that… — read more
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Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 2)
This series was originally posted on Anthrodendum in 2023. I am republishing it here as a part of a renewed effort to look at the intersection of sports, power, and culture (via baseball mostly). Here is Part 2: In part one of this installment, I mentioned Leslie White’s call to expand the purview of anthropology and take… — read more
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Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 1)
This series was originally posted on Anthrodendum in 2023. I am republishing it here as a part of a renewed effort to look at the intersection of sports, power, and culture (via baseball mostly). Here is Part 1: A couple months ago, just after the 2023 baseball season started, I was sitting in the upper… — read more
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