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UPRIVER

Upriver offers the observations of a working anthropologist and former research-center director. Topics range from the ethics of cultural appropriation to new ways of stewarding Indigenous collections in museums, from the challenges of writing in ways meaningful to the general public to the struggle of Amazonian Native peoples for sovereignty and respect. The Upriver title evokes the challenge of writing against the current of conventional thought.—Michael F. Brown

“All writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.”—Martin Amis

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Miscellaneous profiles and reviews

Article on Michael F. Brown and Upriver in the Santa Fe New Mexican, August 8, 2014

Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2014

Brief profile in the Princeton Alumni Weekly blog site, December 19, 2014

 

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Michael F. Brown

As President Emeritus of the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, my academic interests include the indigenous peoples of the New World (especially the Amazon), religion, medical anthropology, ethnobotany, and the ethical dilemmas of intellectual property.

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Categories

  • Academic writing and its discontents
  • acoustic anthropology
  • American populism; higher education; inequality
  • animism
  • anthropological theory
  • artificial intelligence
  • Ayahuasca
  • book review
  • bureaucracy
  • Chavín de Huántar
  • Climate change
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Cultural appropriation
  • cultural heritage
  • cultural patrimony
  • death
  • decolonization
  • Environmental destruction of Amazonian rainforest
  • Ethnobotanical reflections
  • ethnobotany
  • Ethnography
  • Existential risk
  • firearms-related death
  • Globalization
  • Guerra de Sombras, by Fernández & Brown
  • gun control
  • heritage protection
  • Higher education in the US
  • Human futures
  • Indigenous Amazonian peoples: Social issues
  • Indigenous resistance
  • indigenous sovereignty
  • indigenous video
  • Inequality
  • Intellectual property
  • Jazz
  • José Carlos Mariátegui
  • language survival
  • Latin American Socialism
  • Modernity
  • Native American art
  • Native American rights
  • necropolitics
  • New book on the Peruvian Amazon
  • ontology
  • Open Access publishing
  • Philanthropy
  • Populist anger
  • pre-dawn ruminations
  • public anthropology
  • Reconquest of New Mexico
  • retirement
  • Reviews of "Upriver"
  • Santa Fe Fiesta
  • second amendment
  • Social change
  • South American prehistory
  • traffic in body parts
  • Uncategorized
  • União do Vegetal (UDV)
  • US rural decline

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