Keynote address by Maximilian C. Forte delivered by video to the 8th Annual Public Anthropology Conference, "(Re)Defining Power: Paradigms of Praxis," American University, Washington, DC, 14-16 October, 2011.
The fifth post in the Zero Series begins the process of locating the emergence of institutionalized anthropology, not so much in the "history of ideas," as much as in the history of the expanding capitalist world-system. Also, see the video prepared specially for this essay.
In this, the fourth post in the Zero Series, we consider some of the limitations of our main concepts and terms that link anthropology and imperialism. This post effectively ends the "introduction" of the Zero Series.
The second post in the Zero Series, this one dealing with problems and questions concerning the conceptualization of anthropology's relationship with imperialism and colonialism.
(The sixth post in the Zero Series)
Cultural imperialism rests on the power to universalize particularisms linked to a singular historical tradition by causing them to be misrecognized as such. (Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1999, p. 41)