By: Jason Antrosio
I’m very late to the comments thread, but I tremendously enjoyed these reflections and that in some way I played a tiny part in motivating a post that then got amped up around the anthropology...
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[...] that rippled through the anthropology blogosphere, starting with a post from Greg Downey, “Brand Anthropology: New and Improved with Extra Diversity!” on Neuroanthropology, folllowed by Rex’s...
View ArticleBy: A Vision of Anthropology Today – and Tomorrow | Neuroanthropology
[...] the outside world. A lot of discussion has happened recently over the anthropology “brand” – diversity as our brand, anthropologists owning human nature, on diversity and human nature,...
View ArticleBy: Doubling Down on Culture | Living Anthropologically
[...] to propagate our own view of culture” (Hannerz 2010:546; for an evaluation of Hannerz, see Neuroanthropology). For my “Cultural Anthropology” course I use Carol Delaney’s Investigating [...]
View ArticleBy: Anthropology, Ambushed
[...] “Diversity Is Our Business” (see again the great commentary from Greg Downey “Brand Anthropology,” which was also part of the “Soft Launch” of this blog); and Andre [...]
View ArticleBy: Anthropology: Blog This! - C L O S E R
[...] Hannerz (‘Diversity is our business) in talking to anthropology about anthropology as ‘our brand‘. Or when we proudly defend (and rightly so) anthropology against a flawed attack by some [...]
View ArticleBy: zbicyclist
This plays into another stereotype: that anthropologists tend to be long-winded. the “in a nutshell” paragraph is pretty good, although it still should be refined into an “elevator speech” — the idea...
View ArticleBy: On Forming a Digital Anthropology Group | Neuroanthropology
[...] My thoughts below have also been shaped by Greg’s contributions onsite, in particular his pieces Blogging for Promotion: An Immodest Proposal (take getting credit by the horns!) and Brand...
View ArticleBy: Diversity is Our Business–& Going to Museums in the Nude | Welcome to the...
[...] I like here is that (1), as Ulf Hannerz pointed out & Greg Downey echoed regarding anthropology, “diversity is our business,” & (2), as I mentioned in [...]
View ArticleBy: Thomas Friedman’s Lessons for Anthropologists | Neuroanthropology
[...] about problems that they are about. To get this sort of public cut through, I think we need to study those who do it well, even when we don’t like the conclusions that they’re pushing. As a...
View ArticleBy: PopAnth: get it while it’s hot! | Neuroanthropology
[...] Anth addresses a need that a number of us have been pointing out for quite a while (like here, or see Daniel’s post here on the subject): anthropologists spend too much time bemoaning that no [...]
View ArticleBy: Branding Uniqueness, Happiness & the Exotic: Ethnic Rituals Anthropologie...
[...] not about the scientific discipline of anthropology as a brand, although it is related to ‘diversity is our business‘ or better: ‘fashionable diversity as a business’. This post is about ethnic...
View ArticleBy: Culture in/and Anthropology » Mu 〮 sing 〮 ing
[...] wonder if I’m largely concerned with “the brand of anthropology“. Why was anthropology so troublingly absent from a discussion about the [...]
View ArticleBy: Popular Anthropology: Buttering Up Humanity | American Anthropological...
[…] the academy” (2006:1). One of my favorite articles on the subject is by Greg Downey who, on his Neuroanthropology blog, argues that anthropology’s difficulties with engaging the public is at least...
View ArticleBy: Best journalism of 2015 | Brave new words
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