Anthropology s the only academic discipline in which anarchists have had such a large influence. Pierre Clastres, Al Radcliffe-Brown, Peter Kropotkin, Elise Reclus, David Graeber... these people were at the top of their fields, and their work remains influential today. One could perhaps add Georges Sorel, Robert Graves, Marcel Mauss, and even Levi-Strauss to this list, though their politics weren't exactly the same as the classical anarchists... they were certainly radical thinkers. Anthropology seems to have a natural affinity for anarchism, and vice-versa.
No wonder the wokeists hate the whole idea of anthropology!
What, if anything, do think about the work of Richard K Nelson (“Hunters of the Northern Ice,” “Make Prayers to the Raven,” “The Island Within,” etc)? Or of Barry Lopez (“Lessons From the Wolverine,” “Arctic Dreams,” etc)? Or, for that matter, of Gary Snyder (most importantly “The Practice of the Wild”)?
If it is true that our brains are evolving towards more future-planning I am very sorry for our descendants. If people cannot sleep nowadays because of their speculations on what will happen within the next seven generations, imagine how much anxiety they will experience once they worry for the next couple of thousand of years ahead of themselves. In the meantime, the actual people who exist beside every one of us, all our precious current experiences pass before our eyes without we even noticing
Snyder’s “The Practice of the Wild,” combined w Cudenec’s “The Green One” and “The Withway” are as good and comprehensive an explication of what’s goin down on earth and how to jive with and navigate it as anything offered by any of the theists, philosophers or mystics. But I think you’re right (as per “standing on the shoulders of giants”) in that these works are 100% grounded in the cultural anthropology work of earlier thinkers/writers.
This is really terrific stuff. Thank you for doing what you do.
Thanks! I stand on the shoulders of giants.
Anthropology s the only academic discipline in which anarchists have had such a large influence. Pierre Clastres, Al Radcliffe-Brown, Peter Kropotkin, Elise Reclus, David Graeber... these people were at the top of their fields, and their work remains influential today. One could perhaps add Georges Sorel, Robert Graves, Marcel Mauss, and even Levi-Strauss to this list, though their politics weren't exactly the same as the classical anarchists... they were certainly radical thinkers. Anthropology seems to have a natural affinity for anarchism, and vice-versa.
No wonder the wokeists hate the whole idea of anthropology!
What, if anything, do think about the work of Richard K Nelson (“Hunters of the Northern Ice,” “Make Prayers to the Raven,” “The Island Within,” etc)? Or of Barry Lopez (“Lessons From the Wolverine,” “Arctic Dreams,” etc)? Or, for that matter, of Gary Snyder (most importantly “The Practice of the Wild”)?
A proud NEVERMORON with a BA in Anthropology, I love what you are doing!
If it is true that our brains are evolving towards more future-planning I am very sorry for our descendants. If people cannot sleep nowadays because of their speculations on what will happen within the next seven generations, imagine how much anxiety they will experience once they worry for the next couple of thousand of years ahead of themselves. In the meantime, the actual people who exist beside every one of us, all our precious current experiences pass before our eyes without we even noticing
Snyder’s “The Practice of the Wild,” combined w Cudenec’s “The Green One” and “The Withway” are as good and comprehensive an explication of what’s goin down on earth and how to jive with and navigate it as anything offered by any of the theists, philosophers or mystics. But I think you’re right (as per “standing on the shoulders of giants”) in that these works are 100% grounded in the cultural anthropology work of earlier thinkers/writers.