The ” East” and the “West ” is a rather favorite binary (or, what we’d call a heuristic in academia) in the world of post-colonial scholarship. It’s also relatively popular in general media and I’m sure one would have no trouble scouring up examples of conflict or conversation between the Western World and another category…Continue reading Anthro Mini-Lecture: “West” Versus “East” and Why I Never Liked Edward Said

Yeah, yeah, spoilers. Who cares. It’s movies like this one that always remind me of an old adage: Just remember, that at some point, a group of people got together in a room and decided that *this* was a good idea. But despite many of the sins of cultural representation that movies like The Mummy…Continue reading The Mummy (2017) – A Review