We’ve built a methodology that makes accountability structurally impossible. Is that scholarship or faith? #publicanthropology
December 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We’ve built a methodology that makes accountability structurally impossible. Is that scholarship or faith? #publicanthropology
We teach students that connection deepens insight, that multiple perspectives create dimensional understanding.
Yet we refuse to share the very data that would allow others to engage with our work. We’re ethnographers who won’t let anyone read our fieldnotes. #publicanthropology
Yet we refuse to share the very data that would allow others to engage with our work. We’re ethnographers who won’t let anyone read our fieldnotes. #publicanthropology
December 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
We teach students that connection deepens insight, that multiple perspectives create dimensional understanding.
Yet we refuse to share the very data that would allow others to engage with our work. We’re ethnographers who won’t let anyone read our fieldnotes. #publicanthropology
Yet we refuse to share the very data that would allow others to engage with our work. We’re ethnographers who won’t let anyone read our fieldnotes. #publicanthropology
Why do so many deny what they can already feel and see? Climate denial isn’t ignorance—it’s meaning preservation, a cultural defense against moral reckoning.
#ClimateChange #Denialism #Anthropology #PoliticalEcology #PublicAnthropology
#ClimateChange #Denialism #Anthropology #PoliticalEcology #PublicAnthropology
The Logic of Denial: Climate Change and the Preservation of Meaning
How culture, faith, and fossil capital converged to turn scientific evidence into moral resistance.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Why do so many deny what they can already feel and see? Climate denial isn’t ignorance—it’s meaning preservation, a cultural defense against moral reckoning.
#ClimateChange #Denialism #Anthropology #PoliticalEcology #PublicAnthropology
#ClimateChange #Denialism #Anthropology #PoliticalEcology #PublicAnthropology
The power of ethnography isn’t fixed truth, it’s the empowering conversations that generate new understanding.
#anthropology #publicanthropology
#anthropology #publicanthropology
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The power of ethnography isn’t fixed truth, it’s the empowering conversations that generate new understanding.
#anthropology #publicanthropology
#anthropology #publicanthropology
Join Profs. @traciecanada.bsky.social @anandian.bsky.social and me Wed. 10/29 at 3:30 Eastern, for a webinar on promoting our scholarship for a wider impact. Free for @americananthro.bsky.social members, small fee for non-members. Click link to register. #anthropology #publicanthropology #writing
Promoting Your Scholarship: Strategies for Wider Impact - American Anthropological Association
Join acclaimed anthropologists Anand Pandian, Barbara King, and Tracie Canada for an inspiring conversation on bringing scholarship to the public. Drawing from their own successes—featured in outlets ...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Join Profs. @traciecanada.bsky.social @anandian.bsky.social and me Wed. 10/29 at 3:30 Eastern, for a webinar on promoting our scholarship for a wider impact. Free for @americananthro.bsky.social members, small fee for non-members. Click link to register. #anthropology #publicanthropology #writing
➡️Follow the link in our bio to read the full tribute and how important #publicanthropology was for Thomas Hylland Eriksen: doi.org/10.3167/ee.2... (3/3)
October 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
➡️Follow the link in our bio to read the full tribute and how important #publicanthropology was for Thomas Hylland Eriksen: doi.org/10.3167/ee.2... (3/3)
Your research ‘subjects’ have names, expertise, and intellectual contributions that deserve recognition.
Yet most ethnographic work still follows the colonial playbook, extract insights, publish under sole authorship, move on to the next community. #publicanthropology
Yet most ethnographic work still follows the colonial playbook, extract insights, publish under sole authorship, move on to the next community. #publicanthropology
October 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Your research ‘subjects’ have names, expertise, and intellectual contributions that deserve recognition.
Yet most ethnographic work still follows the colonial playbook, extract insights, publish under sole authorship, move on to the next community. #publicanthropology
Yet most ethnographic work still follows the colonial playbook, extract insights, publish under sole authorship, move on to the next community. #publicanthropology
The discipline that claims to study human diversity couldn’t tolerate intellectual diversity within its own ranks. #publicanthropology
September 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
The discipline that claims to study human diversity couldn’t tolerate intellectual diversity within its own ranks. #publicanthropology
Dr. Borofsky: “I had over 12,000 pages of field notes that raised important questions about how we understand the people we study.”
From career advancement to public service, one anthropologist’s radical shift from publishing for personal gain to serving the broader good.
#PublicAnthropology
From career advancement to public service, one anthropologist’s radical shift from publishing for personal gain to serving the broader good.
#PublicAnthropology
September 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Dr. Borofsky: “I had over 12,000 pages of field notes that raised important questions about how we understand the people we study.”
From career advancement to public service, one anthropologist’s radical shift from publishing for personal gain to serving the broader good.
#PublicAnthropology
From career advancement to public service, one anthropologist’s radical shift from publishing for personal gain to serving the broader good.
#PublicAnthropology
The most radical act in anthropology might be admitting when a community doesn’t need us to study them. But that doesn’t build CVs, does it? #publicanthropology
September 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The most radical act in anthropology might be admitting when a community doesn’t need us to study them. But that doesn’t build CVs, does it? #publicanthropology
Culture is fluid, diverse, and dynamic, not something to be put in a ‘box. #publicanthropology
August 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Culture is fluid, diverse, and dynamic, not something to be put in a ‘box. #publicanthropology
We need to see #anthropology as studying an array of processes more than a formal set of actions and behaviors that can be neatly written down in a book. #publicanthropology
August 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We need to see #anthropology as studying an array of processes more than a formal set of actions and behaviors that can be neatly written down in a book. #publicanthropology
Dean Bill Maurer (UC Irvine) admits: “Community partnerships are considered in promotion reviews… but it’s just one thing among many.”
The gap between what universities SAY they value vs. what actually gets you promoted. Listen to full episode.
#PublicAnthropology
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The gap between what universities SAY they value vs. what actually gets you promoted. Listen to full episode.
#PublicAnthropology
open.spotify.com/episode/0KsH...
The Academic Trap: Why Brilliant Community Research Won't Get You Promoted (With Dean Dr. Bill Maurer)
Spotify video
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August 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Dean Bill Maurer (UC Irvine) admits: “Community partnerships are considered in promotion reviews… but it’s just one thing among many.”
The gap between what universities SAY they value vs. what actually gets you promoted. Listen to full episode.
#PublicAnthropology
open.spotify.com/episode/0KsH...
The gap between what universities SAY they value vs. what actually gets you promoted. Listen to full episode.
#PublicAnthropology
open.spotify.com/episode/0KsH...
‘Giving voice’ implies they were silent. ‘Representing’ implies they can’t speak for themselves. Our language reveals the colonial mentality we can’t shake. #publicanthropology
August 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
‘Giving voice’ implies they were silent. ‘Representing’ implies they can’t speak for themselves. Our language reveals the colonial mentality we can’t shake. #publicanthropology
We teach students to ‘make the familiar strange’ but never to make the academy strange. What are we afraid they’ll see? #publicanthropology #academia
August 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
We teach students to ‘make the familiar strange’ but never to make the academy strange. What are we afraid they’ll see? #publicanthropology #academia
4. There’s a mismatch between how #anthropology sees itself (a discipline constantly questioning, deconstructing, critiquing its own stance towards humanity) and how others see it (a white-people discipline still steeped in colonial concepts). We need to do more #publicanthropology to change that!
July 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
4. There’s a mismatch between how #anthropology sees itself (a discipline constantly questioning, deconstructing, critiquing its own stance towards humanity) and how others see it (a white-people discipline still steeped in colonial concepts). We need to do more #publicanthropology to change that!
📚 Neue Publikationen am Institut! 📚
👉 Bleibt dran für weitere Einblicke in aktuelle Veröffentlichungen und Forschungsprojekte!
#Anthropologie #Publikationen #Ethnologie #PublicAnthropology #NeuesFrankfurt #CarbonAccounting #STStudies
👉 Bleibt dran für weitere Einblicke in aktuelle Veröffentlichungen und Forschungsprojekte!
#Anthropologie #Publikationen #Ethnologie #PublicAnthropology #NeuesFrankfurt #CarbonAccounting #STStudies
July 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📚 Neue Publikationen am Institut! 📚
👉 Bleibt dran für weitere Einblicke in aktuelle Veröffentlichungen und Forschungsprojekte!
#Anthropologie #Publikationen #Ethnologie #PublicAnthropology #NeuesFrankfurt #CarbonAccounting #STStudies
👉 Bleibt dran für weitere Einblicke in aktuelle Veröffentlichungen und Forschungsprojekte!
#Anthropologie #Publikationen #Ethnologie #PublicAnthropology #NeuesFrankfurt #CarbonAccounting #STStudies
I spent decades studying isolated communities. Now I realize the most isolated community might be sitting right in front of their computers. Physical proximity no longer guarantees social connection. #publicanthropology
May 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I spent decades studying isolated communities. Now I realize the most isolated community might be sitting right in front of their computers. Physical proximity no longer guarantees social connection. #publicanthropology
Why Wouldn’t You?
A 12-minute film about solidarity, displacement & everyday acts of care across Ireland
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Explore the free Solidarity Toolkit:
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#WhyWouldntYou #DCU #RefugeesWelcome #Solidarity #PublicAnthropology
A 12-minute film about solidarity, displacement & everyday acts of care across Ireland
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qDs...
Explore the free Solidarity Toolkit:
solidaritymanual.my.canva.site/why-wouldn-t...
#WhyWouldntYou #DCU #RefugeesWelcome #Solidarity #PublicAnthropology
Why Wouldn't You?
YouTube video by Maria Loftus
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May 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Why Wouldn’t You?
A 12-minute film about solidarity, displacement & everyday acts of care across Ireland
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qDs...
Explore the free Solidarity Toolkit:
solidaritymanual.my.canva.site/why-wouldn-t...
#WhyWouldntYou #DCU #RefugeesWelcome #Solidarity #PublicAnthropology
A 12-minute film about solidarity, displacement & everyday acts of care across Ireland
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qDs...
Explore the free Solidarity Toolkit:
solidaritymanual.my.canva.site/why-wouldn-t...
#WhyWouldntYou #DCU #RefugeesWelcome #Solidarity #PublicAnthropology
It’s too complicated they say - a poem on silence, complicity and blame . Thanks to @publicanthropologist for publishing publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i... #anthrobluesky #publicanthropology #poetry
IT’S TOO COMPLICATED, THEY SAY | Public Anthropologist
A Reckoning in Seven Movements I. To Begin With Fire There are nights I wake with my hands curled into fists,nights when I cannot unclench…
publicanthropologist.cmi.no
March 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
It’s too complicated they say - a poem on silence, complicity and blame . Thanks to @publicanthropologist for publishing publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i... #anthrobluesky #publicanthropology #poetry
Die Grundlagenforschung dazu hat Anfang der 1980er übrigens ein Projektseminar der Empirischen Kulturwissenschaft von der Uni Tübingen geleistet. #EKWRocks #PublicAnthropology #Prostestforschung #TeamHumanities #TeamWissenschaft #EduSky
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uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
„50 Jahre im Feld“ - Bernd-Jürgen Warneken „Das ‚rote’ Mössingen“
uni-tuebingen.de
January 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Die Grundlagenforschung dazu hat Anfang der 1980er übrigens ein Projektseminar der Empirischen Kulturwissenschaft von der Uni Tübingen geleistet. #EKWRocks #PublicAnthropology #Prostestforschung #TeamHumanities #TeamWissenschaft #EduSky
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
Die Grundlagenforschung dazu hat Anfang der 1980er ein Projektseminar der Empirischen Kulturwissenschaft von der @UniTuebingen geleistet. #ELWRocks #PublicAnthropology #Prostestforschung #TeamHumanities #TeamWissenschaft #EduSky #UniTübingen
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
„50 Jahre im Feld“ - Bernd-Jürgen Warneken „Das ‚rote’ Mössingen“
uni-tuebingen.de
January 31, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Die Grundlagenforschung dazu hat Anfang der 1980er ein Projektseminar der Empirischen Kulturwissenschaft von der @UniTuebingen geleistet. #ELWRocks #PublicAnthropology #Prostestforschung #TeamHumanities #TeamWissenschaft #EduSky #UniTübingen
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
Brilliant keynote by Sahana Udupa at our 3rd DFG #PublicAnthropology Network workshop in Göttingen on how right-wing attacks on the liberal academy are shaped by historical forces of coloniality and racial relations 🙏
April 20, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Brilliant keynote by Sahana Udupa at our 3rd DFG #PublicAnthropology Network workshop in Göttingen on how right-wing attacks on the liberal academy are shaped by historical forces of coloniality and racial relations 🙏