I’m an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such.

I see anarchism as something you do not an identity...

...so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist

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Fri 29 May 2020 20:00

oh wait are they trying to make you pay? sorry still haven’t figured this one out https://t.co/4HUvx2dTyw

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Fri 29 May 2020 19:53

this one is me reading from the What are Kings book, in this case, an exposition about really large or elaborate hats https://t.co/eLJrt1qhsu

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Fri 29 May 2020 17:32

I especially like the way the CNN guy at the very end complains “if you saw the whole video you can see were telling the story entirely from a pro-police anti-protestor perspective & they still arrested us!’ https://t.co/pMCnFRHCA4

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Thu 28 May 2020 22:19

I mean, we’re totally going to use it in our book, but I’m just checking if there’s some back-story I don’t know: it was discovered to be a forgery & everyone was too nice to say it in print, or something like that? Seems unlikely. Scholars in that field aren’t very nice. 5/

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Thu 28 May 2020 22:15

when they do mention Tsouharissen, or even cite the article, they act as if the only sources for his existence are Jesuit relations of the time. What am I to make of this? Is there some bias against any use of oral history in the NE, or is it something else? I don’t get it. 4/

Thu 28 May 2020 22:14

it refers to a mss., dictated from a woman who says it was passed mother-to-daughter from his favourite wife before he died in c.1625. The author is a reputable scholar. But other scholars pretend this mss does not exist. It’s the strangest thing. 3/

Thu 28 May 2020 22:12

the reason I ask is it is by a respected archaeologist of the “Neutral” people of Ontario, & cites an extraordinary oral history document about a 17th century ruler … which, however, NO OTHER SCHOLAR HAS EVER CITED. 2/

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Thu 28 May 2020 22:09

ok I can’t help but ask. Has anyone read the following? Noble, William. 1985. “Tsouharissen’s Chiefdom: An Early Historic 17th Century Neutral Iroquoian Ranked Society.” Canadian Journal of Archaeology 9 (2): 131-146 1/

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Thu 28 May 2020 17:09

for thems that are into this sort of thing, here’s the original English text of the piece that came out in Liberation yesterday in French as “Towards a Bullshit Economy” English: https://t.co/pzWBF5XuCN French: https://t.co/bPYN9p8dgd

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Thu 28 May 2020 15:39

Here’s an idea: how about instead of just clapping for health workers, we try to help them in their efforts not to be killed? This’d mean rising up to demand workers who successfully campaign for better safety conditions aren’t sacked. https://t.co/c820uIiGfg

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Thu 28 May 2020 14:02

meanwhile administrative arrangements, even things like taxes, learning how to set up the interface that arranges my office hours, apologizing for missing a meeting – this all blends into each other as the “real” job 3/

Thu 28 May 2020 13:59

is this what scholarly life is like for most scholars? (I use the word “scholar” almost defiantly, to remind myself that scholarship is ultimately what I do, even though it’s treated as an indulgence you occasionally get to do at the expense of your “real” work.) 2/

Thu 28 May 2020 13:58

this morning I spent a whole hour typing entries into a long bibliography about Mississippians, Hopewell, and the Haudenosaunee. While a task, if was pleasant. I feel like I have been paying the price ever since running from one responsibility to another. 1/

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Wed 27 May 2020 21:27

excellent translation afaics – except at the end where it says “translated from the American”. I wrote it in British English! https://t.co/bPYN9p8dgd

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Tue 26 May 2020 16:56

so how did the rest of the GlobalTeach-in go? I’m not on Facebook so as soon as the Zoom portion ended I couldn’t follow it. https://t.co/4ie0XHVOJ3

Mon 25 May 2020 23:36

Comments on Clown Police and Dwarf Kings (.@nikadubrovsky films me musing on the roof again) https://t.co/yF4s7ZCYtj

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Mon 25 May 2020 23:35

Were Kings Originally Clowns? (.@nikadubrovsky filmed me on the roof, reading from the book) https://t.co/MM7H7iFiAF

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Sun 24 May 2020 17:49

new posts on our patreon page, with .@nikadubrovsky; me talking about Semiramis & Alexander (a story from the book), and me about children’s stories in general: https://t.co/1QU1wz2v8e https://t.co/s6LfOOTWKa

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Sun 24 May 2020 16:06

in fact, Russia is a very minor power, run by gangsters, coasting on oil & gas reserves & the remains of the Soviet infrastructure (schools, rails, etc all still working). Putin is not a genius, he’s just a competent politician which seems rare these days. Get over it. 4/

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Sun 24 May 2020 16:03

the main thing keeping Putin in power, despite his alienating key constituencies & his attempts to wreck the remaining functioning elements of society by privatisation, is that people think, well, at least he’s restored us as a global power 3/

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Sun 24 May 2020 16:02

I mean Russia is barely a second-rate power, and it’s intelligence services are so notoriously incompetent there are old women in the Moscow subway selling disks which have the names & (sequentially listed) passport #s of all the Russian agents listed on them? 2/

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Sun 24 May 2020 16:01

Question to liberals & lefties who claim to hate Vladimir Putin, but also insist he’s an evil strategic mastermind behind everything bad & insist anyone you don’t like is an agent in his ultra-effective secret spy empire: do you have any idea how much this builds him up? 1/

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