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About those ancestry dot com commercials (2018)
Editor’s note: This a piece from 2018 that was originally published on Anthrodendum. Slightly edited for clarity. In the fall 2017 quarter I kicked off my intro to cultural anthropology course with one of those Ancestry dot com videos. These are all over the place, and many of them carry the same basic theme. They — read more
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Anthropology The Gathering #1
I think it’s fair to say that the discipline of anthropology feels…quiet these days. I’m mostly talking about anthropology online. Much of this is likely because the discipline and what it stands for is basically under attack in the current political moment. It also did not help that one of our main channels of public — read more
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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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