…farther up the genealogy you go, the larger the groups encompassed. [RELATED: Anthropology in Crisis: Elizabeth Weiss Faces the Challenges of a Politicized Discipline] The significance of these groups is…
…the past. But her testimony, opposing scientific rigor to identity pretensions, suggests an uncertain future for a discipline in search of meaning. Photo of Elizabeth Weiss submitted by Elizabeth Weiss…
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Reality’s Last Stand on January 16, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Biological anthropology…
2024 was a devasting year for anthropology and archaeology. The new regulations in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and the newly passed additions to California’s repatriation…
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on December 4, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it…
From October 28th to the wee hours of October 31st, I attended Hereticon at the Faena Hotel on Miami Beach. Put on by tech billionaire Peter Thiel—who has been frequently…
…pledges supporting racial and ethnic quotas. Woke bureaucrats drove out award-winning San Jose State University Anthropology Professor Elizabeth Weiss for her allegedly bigoted research showing that Native Americans have not…
Introduction The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was initially written to ensure that government-funded institutions, such as museums and universities, give human remains and some types of…
Last month, California assemblyman James C. Ramos started a state legislative meeting with a prayer; it was appropriate for a meeting that would end with the funeral of anthropology in…
A new academic year is upon us. With that, new faculty and graduate students will be delving into research applications, especially through the largest higher education funder of scientific research:…
University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum recently made headlines for allegedly preventing images of Nigerian Igbo masks from being displayed in their online catalog because these masks, according to the…
…June 10 and is available through Amazon.com and other online booksellers. You can also order copies directly from the publisher, Academica Press. Photo of Elizabeth Weiss submitted by Elizabeth Weiss…
In the last year, there has been a rapid increase in actions that involve removing human remains and photographs of human remains from anthropology and archaeology classrooms, conference halls, publications,…
Editor’s Note: This article, originally published on Spiked on February 9, 2024, has been revised to incorporate additional insights and perspectives not previously featured in the Spiked version. The recent…
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by City Journal on December 7, 2023 and is crossposted here with permission. The American Museum of Natural History’s newest “revitalized” hall—the Northwest…
The origin of Christmas is often linked to Roman pagan festivals, most often either Saturnalia or Dies Natalis Solis Invicti. Both holidays fall in December. Saturnalia, which was a week-long…
Thanksgiving is often a time when people reflect on what they have to be thankful for—family, friends, good health, etc. For many, these are considered blessings, and there is much…
…School, children being kidnapped by Queen Elizabeth at KIRS, or white crosses in an unfinished basement of a church at Holy Rosary Mission. Spooky images of long-abandoned buildings, photos of…
…these families is “thoughts and prayers”, brought to you by the party of science. Elizabeth Weiss is a professor of anthropology at San José State University. She is on the…
In July, I attended the 41st Annual Meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) in Tucson, Arizona. The meeting opened with the national anthem played beautifully on the trumpet and…
On the evening of April 23, 2023, a fight broke out in Los Angeles. The masked mob threw chairs, shouted swear words, stole a laptop, and landed a few punches….
Editor’s Note: The following is a speech delivered by Professor Elizabeth Weiss of San Jose State University at a meeting of the California Association of Scholars on March 16, 2023….
From November 10 to 13, I attended the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), which was held in Seattle, Washington. The AAA is the largest anthropological association in…
Shearing Science to Atone for Imagined Sins of the Past According to journalist Christine Chung, writing for the New York Times, Harvard’s Peabody Museum will return hundreds of Native American…
…understand the lives of ancient peoples. Those who speak up against falsehoods are attacked as racists. I (Weiss) have experienced such attacks firsthand. In response to a vitriolic campaign that…
Charles Darwin’s works, including The Descent of Man (1871), withstand the test of time. Darwin got a remarkable amount about the mechanics of evolution, our African origins, the links between…
…of the activity on the internet regarding the book has been in the form of ad hominem Tweets, such as noting that I (Elizabeth Weiss) should not hold these views…
…Times opinion writer Bari Weiss discovered last year. Weiss, already in disfavor among progressives for criticizing aspects of the #MeToo movement, got into trouble for celebrating the Olympic performance of…