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Eric B. Ross
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Events over the last two years in Knoxville, Tennessee, confirm that the world of academics in the contemporary United States is as cut-throat as anywhere on earth, from the Canadian arctic to the rain forest of Madagascar. That, in fact, is where o…
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- Hometown:
- New York City
- About Me:
- I'm a US-trained cultural anthropologist who has recently returned to the States after 27 years abroad, in the UK and The Netherlands (where I was chair of the MA program in development studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague). I teach part-time at The George Washington University, write (my most recent book was The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development) and campaign for social justice
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- http://www.theporcupine.org
- Area(s) of Training
- cultural anthropology, medical anthropology
- Area(s) of Expertise
- agrarian development, global health, cultural ecology, anthropological theory
- Most Recent Degree
- PhD
- Current Area of Employment
- Visiting Professor, The George Washington University, DC
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Inquisition in Knoxville: The Case of Dr. Janice Harper
Events over the last two years in Knoxville, Tennessee, confirm that the world of academics in the contemporary United States is as cut-throat as anywhere on earth, from the Canadian arctic to the rain forest of Madagascar. That, in fact, is where one of my dearest friends, an anthropologist named Janice Harper, did her doctoral research in the mid-nineteen-nineties, when she examined the sources of marginality of the indigenous inhabitants of the Madagascar’s Ranomafana National Park Project (P… Continue
Posted on August 29, 2009 at 8:25pm —
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