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Maximilian Forte is a retired Professor formerly in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal. Maximilian does research in Cultural Anthropology, Historical Anthropology and International Relations.
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The concept of “public health” and the practice of locking down, have been weaponized and enlisted in a broad and expanding service to the national security state. This case study focuses on Trinidad & Tobago, particularly between 2022 and 2023. The case involves a declaration by the government that it would be applying a “public health approach” t...
The Nuremberg Code is foundational to the ethics codes of research involving human beings in numerous disciplines, not least of which are anthropological codes. How have anthropologists lived up to the ethical demands and purposes of their discipline's mission in the face of multiple forms of coercion and segregation on campus imposed in the name o...
We are now facing a regime that is losing, is aware that it is losing, and wants at all costs to survive even if it means damning everyone else. That is the picture that we get, in bold strokes. In practice, there may be considerable divisions and emergent factionalism within the pandemicist regime. By pandemicism I mean the intersection of catastr...
From Wednesday, June 22, through Friday, June 24, 2022, a combined effort by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance and Fearless Canada, brought three full days of testimonies that were streamed online in what was called, “A Citizens’ Hearing”. Testimonies typically began at 9:00am Eastern time, and ended past 5:00pm, apart from the final day. This docum...
By December of 2021, there were already some prescient suggestions that the Omicron variant could well end “the pandemic”. And that was and still is a problem. It is a problem on two fronts. First, a variant that not only defeats the “vaccines,” but that also reduces the pandemic to a minor endemic phenomenon, is not one that can be exploited to ge...
While many believe and assert that a “public health emergency” must limit basic human freedoms, it is precisely when faced by a real or alleged emergency that we need to be most careful and protective of human rights. Basic human rights are inalienable, and cannot be “suspended” because of any war, disaster, or other emergency. Bodily autonomy, inf...
Arima Born: Revealing the History of Arima and its Mission through the Catholic Church’s Baptismal Registers, 1820–1916 [Parts included here: Acknowledgements, Preface, Conclusion]
The Catholic Mission of Santa Rosa is something that helped to make Arima a distinctive town in Trinidad, accounting for nearly half of the Amerindian population of the...
What is "silencing" and is it out of place in the contemporary North American university? How do "silencing" and "public anthropology" intersect? What are the roles of academic power and academic capital? Readers are invited to explore the proposition that "silencing" is really about the political economy of value-the destruction or creation of val...
Multisited ethnography advances a transnational research method that follows peoples, objects, and ideas that are connected across a number of sites. Numerous studies of migration, media, and development have adopted this approach. Yet important shortcomings remain concerning the practicality of the method, the rationale, and the approach's relatio...
Is there a Canadian anthropology or is it just anthropology in Canada? If it is “anthropology in Canada,” then from where has it been imported? If what we are doing is
primarily US anthropology, then what are we importing when we do US anthropology in Canada? How do we do US anthropology in Canada? Does challenging US hegemony imply nationalism an...
Recent events have called into question how a discipline can be commanded on an international plane, and represented in a singular and universal fashion. Those events are useful for inviting meditation on questions of national traditions, the power to globalize a
claim to preeminence over other national traditions, the capital deployed in and acqu...
An overview of the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of the New Victorianism.
Tradução realizada por Jefferson Virgílio com base na versão 2.0 que encontra-se disponível online no portal Zero Anthropology em: https://zeroanthropology.net/2008/09/09/how-to-protect-yourself-from-an- anthropologist-a-code-of-ethics-from-the-bottom-up/. A tradução foi realizada para circular entre lideranças e comunidades indígenas após a eleiçã...
The U.S. Army's launch of the Human Terrain System (HTS) in 2007, initially attempting to incorporate anthropologists into a program designed to gather ‘ethnographic intelligence’ in support of counterinsurgency requirements, arguably met with limited success and spawned intense debate through 2011. While the HTS involved a range of social scientis...
Questions and debates about the end of anthropology are highlighted here for their potential value in revealing what the ‘crisis talk’ in the discipline really means, and what it may be masking. In this article the reader is invited to reflect on several questions: about anthropology as a discipline or as a praxis; about how anthropology can be not...
Chong Ja Ian: "Challenging Secrecy"
The increasing public demand for information is challenging long-held government insistence on secrecy throughout East and Southeast Asia. This applies as much to societies with open political systems, like Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, as those with more government control, such as China and Vietnam. Citizens are d...
Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing Indigenous peoples across the Americas, and one with significant implications for decisions relating to resource distribution, conflicts over who gets to live where and for how long, and clashing principles of governance and law. For centuries, the dominant views on this issue have been...
ABSTRACT The advent of the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System (HTS) and the recruitment of anthropologists to provide “cultural knowledge” for the purpose of more effective counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan has created numerous conflicts and debates between HTS advocates and anthropological critics. These debates involve issues of ethical res...
In analyzing the state's political economic management of ethnic diversity in Trinidad, with specific reference to the case of the indigenous Santa Rosa Carib Community, the author sets forth an outline of the “political economy of tradition”: (1) the politics and economics of the state associating economic values with particular cultural represent...
Ethnography has traditionally involved the sustained presence of an anthropologist in a physically fixed field setting, intensively engaged with the everyday life of the inhabitants of a given site, typically, a village or other small community. Conventional notions of the field, especially in anthropology which has been the premiere field-based di...
Ethnography has traditionally involved the sustained presence of an anthropologist in a physically fixed field setting, intensively engaged with the everyday life of the inhabitants of a given site, typically, a village or other small community. Conventional notions of the field, especially in anthropology which has been the premiere field-based di...
Ethnographic research ethics involved in bridging offline and online modes of action research are the focal point of this chapter, written from an anthropological perspective. The specific form of action research in this case study is that of website development. The author argues that online action research, and Web development as a research tool...
Lal Balkarans Dictionary of the Guyanese Amerindians is comprehensive enough that it comes close to being an encyclopaedia. Balkaran provides coverage of some anthropological concepts, Amerindian cosmology, culture, histories of exploration of Guyana by European explorers, the history of Guyana with reference to Amerindians, geography, legends, fo...
The problem addressed here is the putative resurgence of an indigenous community and traditions (in a region widely and long perceived as lacking either) within a context of extreme socio-economic change. Included in this process of change is the apparent crisis of official Creole nationalist ideology emerging within the conjuncture of the 1970 Bla...
One of the tenets of the modern historiography of Trinidad is that its former aboriginal inhabitants were practically extinct by the middle of the nineteenth century and that even prior to that Trinidad was virtually a deserted island. As a consequence, Trinidad's modern cultural development could then be cast as suffering from a dearth of indigene...
Submitted to the Department of Anthropology, Adelaide University, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adelaide University, 2002. Bibliography: p. 296-352.
