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Author: Tristan Anderson
Review: “Cultural Hybridity and International Communication” by Marwan M. Kraidy
Here’s the link to the article I review in this post. If you’ve been reading my posts, you’ll be just as excited as I am to know that all of my academic interests are...
The Hypocritical Anthropologist
In college, I used to sit in the back of the class with the other students of color and listen as my white peers theorized the hell out of the oppression we were born...
New Vocabulary for Stronger Solidarity
Every day in class I am reminded of my evil heritage and visual appearance. People that I would be grouped with in the past did some unspeakable things. Colonialism. Massacres. Slave trades. Missionaries. Every...
“Monumental Connections” in the works
It’s getting exponentially difficult to locate the point where all the information I’ve been absorbing from my own researching (regarding the natures of identity, collective identity (culture), embeddedness, and globalization) intersect. On the other...
Reflecting on Cross-Cultural Music Making Perspectives
This week I couldn’t help but return to Kim’s article on cross-cultural music making after viewing Mississippi Masala this week. Inter-ethnic relationships is a very interesting topic to me, because I have one myself....
How To Add Creativity To Academic Writing
In this post, I’m going to show you the process I go through when I add a splash of creativity to my boring academic writing. I’m in the middle of revising my 2nd draft...
The Paradox of Identity
The scholarly article I explore in this post was written by Lauren Leve, a renowned ethnographer. If you would prefer, please read her article written here. “The paradox presented by people who, on the...
The Success of Short-Story Cycles
Phan’s We Should Never Meet was the most captivating book I’ve read in this class. Besides for the fact that I returned from Viet Nam a week before school, and that I am familiar...
Culture 101: A New Era for Anthropology
Why might the same marketing strategy destroy competition in America but fail to engage people in other countries? The primary factor in global marketing is culture. But how can we understand another culture? Culture...
