Polanyi characterizes the shift to market capitalism by arguing that individuals act upon more maximizing strategies in which they are driven by profit-based gains rather than the subsistence…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Chelsea Hayman Jul 18, 2012.
I was born in Singapore and grew up in the United States (Baltimore, Maryland). I recently finished the requirements for an MSc in Social Anthropology (Learning and Cognition) at the LSE.
Psychological Anthropology, Maritime Anthropology, Economic Psychology, Environmental Anthropology, Work and Labor, Game Theory, North America (United States), Europe (Iceland, Portugal), Commercial Fishing, Distributed Cognition, The Gift, Practice Theory, Applied Anthropology
Since I've returned to the United States, I've been thrown into the whirlwind of election frenzy that I largely wasn't exposed to in England. It's kind of shocking to see how candidates from both parties approach each other in the debate forum and what people generally consider to be acceptable behavior or not. Recently, after the Vice Presidential debate, there was lots of hubbub surrounding Joe Biden's behavior in the debate, particularly his willingness to so blatantly criticize Paul…Continue
Posted on October 14, 2012 at 6:49am — 3 Comments
Knowledge For the Public Good: Learning Territoriality and Resource Management in Fisheries
Fishing is one of the most globalised work practices in the world, yet its form and execution varies greatly across cultural contexts. Learning to fish is often accomplished through “situated learning” in communities, which occurs both on the boat and through conversation with other fishers. However, the inculcation of skill and strategy is also…Continue
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 12:46pm — 5 Comments
After reading Mario Blaser’s intriguing article, The Threat of the Yrmo: The Political Ontology of a Sustainable Hunting Program (2009), I started to see where gaps could lie in the ontological perspective. Although he suggests a “political ontology,” his most compelling and evocative thesis lies in the claim that the Yshiro Indigenous communities of Northern Paraguay abide by an entirely ‘different world’ when they conceive of appropriate conservation behaviors. Thus, their idea…Continue
Posted on July 23, 2012 at 2:13am — 9 Comments
"The characterization of textbook logic is necessarily brief and simplistic, but it captures an essential point about how logicians view logic and its relationship to thinking. Even the most extreme logical formalists agree that logic is expressed through language. For instance, Quine presents logic as the product of truth and grammar. At the time, he claims that logic is empirically real and emerges in the scientific enterprise." -Hamill, Ethno-Logic: The Anthropology of…
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:30am — 11 Comments