Eleanor Burke Leacock (1922-1987) was a foundational theorist in Marxist feminist anthropology. Her concern throughout her prolific scholarly life was with the dynamics of social hierarchies in historical context, and [...]
Our mentor, Louise Lamphere, has unquestionably made her mark on the discipline of anthropology through her pathbreaking scholarship in feminist anthropology in the 1970s and a steady stream of subsequent [...]
A few years ago Carole McGranahan, a former student, spoke by Skype to my Social Theory class at Colgate University. In response to a question from a student about feminist [...]
Well, maybe not just me. Esther Newton’s contribution to anthropology laid the foundation for all of us to imagine gayness as a generator of culture and thus provided the basis [...]
In mid-2019 I was in a series of meetings at the School for Advanced Research with Pat Zavella to discuss a collaborative project focused on contemporary Latinx dissent. Along with [...]
“I like to think that my critical project is a lifelong labor of love that will continue to be informed by a holistic philosophy that values the ability to create [...]
When we were asked by Carole McGranahan to co-edit a series of short essays on feminist anthropology for the new “Collections” forum on the AES website, we were both delighted. [...]
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