Carole McGranahan
Savage Minds
Boulder, CO, United States
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Past articles by Carole:
Enchantment as Methodology
An invited post by: Yana Stainova “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic or intellectual forms a bridge between the sharers, which can be the basis for understanding much … → Read More
Explaining Ethnography in the Field: A Conversation between Pasang Yangjee Sherpa and Carole McGranahan
What is ethnography? In anthropology, ethnography is both something to know and a way of knowing. It is an orientation or epistemology, a type of writing, and also a methodology. As a method, ethno… → Read More
Resources for Understanding Race After Charlottesville
In this time of fake news and alternative facts coming from the White House as well as some media, what can we as scholars contribute to challenge this? In this time of amplified racist hate and vi… → Read More
Peer Review Boycott: Say No to Political Censorship
By: Charlene Makley and Carole McGranahan Would you peer review manuscripts for a journal or press that politically censors its content? If your answer is no, then please join us in making your sta… → Read More
Can There Be a Cheat-Proof Exam?
Cheating is not fun for anyone, except perhaps for the student who does not get caught. At my university I have only one class I teach for non-majors, that is students from around campus who are no… → Read More
Counting and Being Counted: New AAA Tenure and Promotion Guidelines on Public Scholarship
How do we count and value public scholarship in anthropology? — Do we count and value public scholarship in anthropology? — And, how do we do it at the time of tenure and promotion? Som… → Read More
Rogue: Scholarly Responsibility in the Time of Trump
What if scholars need to go rogue? If anthropologists need to go rogue? In the USA right now, we are not in normal times, but in a new period of attack on academia and science, on facts and funding… → Read More
Resistance, Hegemony, Violence, Empire: The Next #AnthReadIn on March 24, 2017
By: Paige West and J.C. Salyer This month the global Anthropology Read In (#AnthReadIn) will move our collective focus to the articulation of United States Empire, environmental violence, and the d… → Read More
No, These Are Not the Best Cultural Anthropology Dissertations
Since 2009, the blog AnthropologyWorks has created an annual list of the “Best Cultural Anthropology Dissertations.” Being included on this list seems as if it might be a grand honor, but is it? Un… → Read More
The Stories We Tell about Resettlement: Refugees, Asylum and the #MuslimBan
By: Nadia El-Shaarawi As a volunteer legal advocate working with refugees who were seeking resettlement, I learned to ask detailed questions about persecution. These were the kind of questions you … → Read More
A practical guide for Iraqis living in Trump’s USA – or in the Gentile North in general
By: Hayder Al-Mohammad My fellow Iraqis. We are living under unheard of pressures and violence against us. Those of us who carry an Iraqi passport will have experienced the pain and humiliation of … → Read More
Refugees, Immigrants, and Trump’s Executive Order: Six Anthropologists Speak Out
By: Catherine Besteman, Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Carole McGranahan, Nomi Stone, and Marnie Thomson The Racist Gift of Immigration and Citizenship Bans, Again Catherine Bestem… → Read More
Hannah Arendt and Martin Luther King Jr.: The Next #AnthReadIn on February 17, 2017
By: JC Salyer and Paige West On January 20, over one thousand anthropologists came together to read Michel Foucault’s lecture eleven in “Society Must Be Defended.” What began as a simple blog post … → Read More
Welcome Zoe Todd to our Core Blogging Team!
On behalf of the entire core blogging team of this soon-to-be-renamed blog, I am delighted to announce that Zoe S. Todd will be joining us as our newest member! Zoe Todd—“Academic, Writ… → Read More
Society Must Be Defended: Join us for a Read-In on 20 January 2017
By: Paige West and JC Salyer In the wake of the 2016 US presidential election scholars across the country and internationally have worked to understand the drivers for the election outcomes.… → Read More
Why Anthropologists Failed to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions
By: Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar In 2016 the movement to boycott Israeli academic institutions for their involvement in the illegal occupation of Palestine both gathered significant steam and face… → Read More
Re-Naming the Savage Minds Blog: Your Suggestions, Please
The editorial collective at Savage Minds has decided to change our name. We have several reasons for this, but mostly feel that the name no longer fits or best represents the blog. As a title, “Sav… → Read More
“Pass the stuffing, hold the -isms please”: Engaging Mixed Philosophies and Difficult Conversations at the Dinner Table
By: Caitlyn Brandt, Allison Dudley, Will Lammons, and Aaron Trumbo The holidays are upon us once again, and soon many of us will engage in those family dynamics that reunite extended family and old… → Read More
Race, Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, Trump, Prison Abolition, Welfare Reform, Pulse Orlando: #Teachingthedisaster through Crowdsourced Syllabi
The 2016 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association — or #AAA2016 #amanth2016 — just concluded in Minneapolis. I’ve been attending these meetings since 1993, and t… → Read More
Language, Power, and Pot: Speaking of Cannabis as Medicine
By: Elisa (EJ) Sobo The US cannabis landscape is shifting quickly, and so is the way we talk about the plant and its uses. The push to end its prohibition has entailed a proliferation of stakeholde… → Read More