Generative Anthropology Summer Conference 2011, May 19-21

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Assignments for President Obama

I’d like, briefly, to propose a way to think about President Obama.  I would first like to summarize or reaffirm (insist upon?) the argument I have made so far regarding Obama’s rise and the wild, cult-like following he has acquired.  In my view, Obama is a transcendent figure, a political celebrity/demi-god, whose quasi-divinity, for [...]

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