Contributions by:
Jeremy F. Walton
Blurry photographs of tear gas and swinging bobby clubs, headlines announcing unprecedented police violence and political strife: for most consumers of the international news media, the demonstrations surrounding Gezi Park (Gezi Parkı), in Istanbul’s central Taksim Square, which began in late May and continue sporadically in spite of state and police repression, amount to little…
Read Full Article...Napoleon Chagnon, Noble Savages. My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013) What is the public image of cultural anthropology today outside of the halls of academia itself? When pursuing this question, the controversial figure of Napoleon Chagnon looms inevitably large. In the lead-up to his…
Read Full Article...Apparent antitheses between Anthropology and Psychoanalysis are not difficult to adduce. Since its 19th Century stirrings, Anthropology has been committed to illuminating the multiplicity encompassed within the category of “the human.” This dedication to difference has typically pivoted on the concept of culture, that universal that is only ever particular. Psychoanalysis, by contrast, treats a…
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