Thanks for the links as always. I know that you ask people for recommendations about new sites, stories, etc., and I thought I should plug two anthropology blogs that I find particularly interesting:

THE PRISM:
_Anthropological Reflections on Society and Culture_
“link”:http://anthropologicalprism.blogspot.com/

The Prism is a new group blog and it’s off to a great start.

I also have been following for a few months the following blog by American University anthropologist _Adrienne Pine_, an expert on Honduras (she has done research in many other countries as well), who has been intensively and thoroughly blogging about the ongoing coup regime in Honduras at

QUOTHA
“link”:http://quotha.net/

By my count, Bérubé makes a case that cultural studies has not lived up to its early promise. The rejoinder includes a few interesting points, e.g., the connection between 1920-30s film studies and the Birmingham School, but, as Bérubé points out in his rebuttal, sloppily misread what he, in fact, said and come across, on the whole, as people with an ox that is gored, saying, in effect “Pity us for the lousy decisions we made and the fix we find ourselves in now that taxpayers are no longer willing to pay for our hobbies.”

My takeaway from Bérubé’s rebuttal is that cultural studies is now in the peculiar fix of claiming on the one hand to unmask and understand the operations of power while, at the same time, having made no inroads at all in the academic disciplines to which powers-that-be turn for expertise. As a result, its adherents turn out to be powerless when times are tough and hard decisions are made. All of which makes the original claim to understand the workings of power more than a little dubious…or am I missing something here?