April242013
“When I am on my way to give a talk at a conference where I will be the only anthropologist”
(via anthromuxer)
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(via anthromuxer)
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March32013
“All anthropologists get the people they deserve.”
A faculty member who will remain unnamed, weighing in on Napoleon Chagnon’s Yanomami (via dearmeiguo)
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The Napoleon Chagnon Wars Flare Up Again In Anthropology
4 notes“I know neither Sahlins nor Chagnon personally. But for a biological anthropologist like myself, these recent, dizzying and highly agitated events surrounding Chagnon and his work are important to try and understand.
This is no mere ego contest between two alpha-male primates of academic anthropology: instead it’s a meaningful, if startlingly angry, discussion about the responsibility of scientists to the people they study and (the factor I will focus on here) the contribution of biology, particularly genetics, to understanding human behavior.”
March22013
“Science, evolution, and anthropology are all on the same side. The other side is where the anti-intellectuals and ideologues are, and have always been, the ones who either don’t understand evolution themselves, or are knowingly misrepresenting its implications to the public.”
“But of course, only a fucking idiot would believe that” | Savage Minds
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