http://thememorybank.co.uk/2009/09/10/a-cosmoplitan-anthropology/ A New Commonwealth — Ver 5.0 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://thememorybank.co.uk/2009/09/10/a-cosmoplitan-anthropology/comment-page-1/#comment-1209 keith Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:28:23 +0000 http://thememorybank.co.uk/?p=1075#comment-1209 John, I have been neglecting my website for the OAC, so I only just saw this and your previous comment on Development. I would be very interested in your thoughts on Mao. I just read that long hatchet job biography which is so one-sided it almost makes you want to like the guy. John, I have been neglecting my website for the OAC, so I only just saw this and your previous comment on Development. I would be very interested in your thoughts on Mao. I just read that long hatchet job biography which is so one-sided it almost makes you want to like the guy.

]]> http://thememorybank.co.uk/2009/09/10/a-cosmoplitan-anthropology/comment-page-1/#comment-945 John McCreery Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:15:15 +0000 http://thememorybank.co.uk/?p=1075#comment-945 Keith, I can now see OAC in a totally different light than simply the place for people with a shared hobby (albeit for some a livelihood) to find each other. I couldn't agree more that, "It matters less that an academic guild should retain its monopoly of access to knowledge than that ‘anthropology’ should be taken up by a broad intellectual coalition for whom the realization of a new human universal – a world society fit for humanity as a whole — is a matter of urgent personal concern." That is a cause in which I would willingly enlist. I must now once again ponder the wisdom of, oddly enough, Mao Tse-tung. I am thinking of a short essay in which he criticizes a young cadre for blundering into a village and throwing his weight around before taking the time to thoroughly understand the actual conditions of life there. Keith, I can now see OAC in a totally different light than simply the place for people with a shared hobby (albeit for some a livelihood) to find each other. I couldn’t agree more that, “It matters less that an academic guild should retain its monopoly of access to knowledge than that ‘anthropology’ should be taken up by a broad intellectual coalition for whom the realization of a new human universal – a world society fit for humanity as a whole — is a matter of urgent personal concern.” That is a cause in which I would willingly enlist. I must now once again ponder the wisdom of, oddly enough, Mao Tse-tung. I am thinking of a short essay in which he criticizes a young cadre for blundering into a village and throwing his weight around before taking the time to thoroughly understand the actual conditions of life there.

]]> http://thememorybank.co.uk/2009/09/10/a-cosmoplitan-anthropology/comment-page-1/#comment-784 Wednesday Round Up #81 « Neuroanthropology Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:35:05 +0000 http://thememorybank.co.uk/?p=1075#comment-784 [...] Hart, A Cosmopolitan Anthropology It’s a changed world, globalized and all. Guess Immanuel Kant was right about [...] [...] Hart, A Cosmopolitan Anthropology It’s a changed world, globalized and all. Guess Immanuel Kant was right about [...]

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