Speaking of Academic Celebrities
An interview with David Graeber on Charlie Rose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uajHCIU876I
Strong is Thomas Strong, lecturer in the department of anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has previously held teaching and/or research posts at the University of Helsinki, the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Wisconsin, and (oddly enough) the American Academy of Ophthalmology. His publications include essays on the symbolism of blood and body in the U.S. and elsewhere, new cross-disciplinary work on kinship, and ideas of culture loss and bodily detumescence amongst the Dano-speakers of Papua New Guinea's eastern highlands province. His on-going research in PNG concerns transformations in sociality, gender relations, and personhood following the mid-twentieth-century repudiation of the traditional men's cult in the upper Asaro valley. His other interests include 'brand' as an ethnographic and analytic concept, HIV/AIDS (especially in the U.S. gay male community), and celebrity/fame.


Of course it cut off right before he differentiates between good and bad authority. Also, anyone care to enlighten us about his situation with Yale? There was obviously much more to that conversation that emerged from Charlie’s brief treatment of it.
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jlo: You might wish to look at this post from a while back.
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