anthrodendumOct 13, 2023

Summer anthropologies #2: Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 3)
In the last post of this installment of the summer anthropologies series, I ended with the point that major league baseball (MLB) is an annual demonstration of autocratic corporate power. If that’s the case, I asked, why would anyone go?

Well, humans ar
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Summer anthropologies #2: Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 3) | anthro{dendum}

In the last post of this installment of the summer anthropologies series, I ended with the point that major league baseball (MLB) is an annual demonstration of autocratic corporate power.

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anthrodendumAug 17, 2023
Summer anthropologies #2: Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 2)
In part one of this installment, I mentioned Leslie White’s call to expand the purview of anthropology and take a closer look at things like baseball. I agree. White’s preliminary theory was that baseball, as a cultural institution, promoted national solidarity
https://anthrodendum.org/2023/08/16/summer-anthropologies-2-leslie-white-goes-to-a-baseball-game-part-2/
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Summer anthropologies #2: Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 2) | anthro{dendum}

In part one of this installment, I mentioned Leslie White’s call to expand the purview of anthropology and take a closer look at things like baseball. I agree. White’s preliminary theory was that…

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anthrodendumAug 5, 2023
Summer anthropologies #2: Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 1)
A couple months ago, just after the 2023 baseball season started, I was sitting in the upper deck behind home plate at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California. It is a great view. I was there to watch the Giants play against the Los Angeles Dodgers w
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Summer anthropologies #2: Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 1) | anthro{dendum}

A couple months ago, just after the 2023 baseball season started, I was sitting in the upper deck behind home plate at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California. It is a great view. I was there to…

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anthrodendumJun 29, 2023
Summer anthropologies #1: The Nameless Summer
Bruce Brown’s mid 1960’s surf epic The Endless Summer is one of the key elements that sparked the global surf tourism industry. It’s a film that set the pattern for how surf tourists have envisioned and engaged with the people and places they travel to and through in search of wa
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Bruce Brown’s mid 1960’s surf epic The Endless Summer is one of the key elements that sparked the global surf tourism industry. It’s a film that set the pattern for how surf tourists have envisioned…

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