J. D. RovinWhere do we come from? Where are we? Where are we going?(I hope I have not stolen Gauguin’s title for nothing)2 min read·Dec 7, 2023----
J. D. Rovinbreakdown“Do you remember that one time at Sydney’s when we walked through the park all night and then we went to that terrible Italian place?”7 min read·Dec 7, 2023----
J. D. RovinDniesterHe lives on OregAn 9. OregAn 9, a lustrous gray planet with sulphuric cinder cone volcanoes and an atmosphere so cold that even the clouds…10 min read·Dec 7, 2023----
J. D. Rovin“I had nothing to offer anybody but my own confusion”written in late 2018 for the Presidential Scholars Program at the University of Texas at Austin, this essay is a reflection on an…7 min read·May 10, 2023----
J. D. RovinWhy I do Linguistic Anthropologythis essay is a work in progress4 min read·Apr 27, 2023----
J. D. RovinWhat I think about participant observation right nowIn this paper I will focus on the work of two intellectuals who participated in the Algerian War for independence, Frantz Fanon and Mahfoud…6 min read·Apr 26, 2023----
J. D. RovinTHE YEPÂ-MASA AND THEIR LANGUAGEThe Tukano/Tucano, or Yepâ-masa as they call themselves, are a group of people whose traditional territory occupies much of the…19 min read·Apr 26, 2023----
J. D. RovinTowards a New View of Folklore, Performance, and Textualization in American AnthropologyIn one scene from the documentary film Derrida (2002), the French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida complains that the filmmaker’s…17 min read·Jan 17, 2023----
J. D. RovinHow one milkshake changed everything…Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil! is rich with speedy, intricate prose which goes on and on like a fantastic column of black gold bursting from…7 min read·Jul 28, 2022----
