Why I’m Leaving the University
…grouped it with sociocultural anthropology, and it fulfilled a sociocultural anthropology requirement for anthro majors. In an act of petty spite, ritual moral purification, or both (take your pick), the…
…grouped it with sociocultural anthropology, and it fulfilled a sociocultural anthropology requirement for anthro majors. In an act of petty spite, ritual moral purification, or both (take your pick), the…
…Jalāl ad-Dīn ar-Rūmī, or simply Rumi, the thirteenth century Sufi poet and mystic. When I’ve discussed identity in classes on cultural anthropology, I ask students to travel back in time…
…of anthropology had been overwhelmed by the reality of fieldwork. That was in the mid-1970s, when the concept of the ‘web’ of society was giving way to network analysis. The…
…poles and summer tipis on the quad, although most contemporary anthropology departments provide a preview. In a paper on indigenous knowledge in the sciences, two university of Alaska professors assert…
…was directed to redefining academic freedom as limited to views that activists find acceptable. I, an emeritus professor of anthropology, was the example given for clamping down on unacceptable accounts…
…largely within other departments such as U.S. history, anthropology, or history and literature. Harvard appears to accept the idea that ethnic studies courses have value, but it has dragged its…
…against … but it’s very different from racism when you don’t have the power. [Racism] can only come from the most dominant group.” Worku Nida, assistant professor of anthropology at…
…in even larger numbers, leading them to kill far more than they could use. These are but a few examples—discovered using archaeological, ethnographic, and biological anthropology data—which illustrate that Native…
…speech. While engineering and computer science are fields primarily interested in finding formal, mathematically-based solutions to the world’s problems, those who study humanities such as anthropology often see themselves as…
…likely a pretext used to pursue already-extant “equity” goals.) Many American graduate schools do not require the GRE for admission. In the McGill Department of Anthropology, we stopped requiring Canadian…
…earned during fifty years of teaching and publishing, consisted of no fewer than eight student groups: The Students’ Society of McGill University Executive Team, the Anthropology Students Association, the Anthropology…
…Studies, Palestine Studies, and Native Studies, or those who have wormed their way into departments such as Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology, and really everywhere in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Students…
Editor’s Note: The following is a brief submitted by Philip Carl Salzman, emeritus professor of anthropology at McGill University, to the Commission scientifique et technique indépendante sur la reconnaissance de…
…the Anthropology of Europe Executive Board Society for Medical Anthropology Executive Board Society for the Anthropology of Religion Executive Board Association for Africanist Anthropology Executive Board Association for Queer Anthropology…
…Civilization, and want them to have as their occupational destiny fast food outlets and coffee houses, avoid these “woke” programs. In the social sciences, anthropology, sociology, and political science used…
…especially in universities. Evil racism, sexism, and bigotry is to be replaced by “social justice” racism, sexism, and bigotry. Over the 50 years I taught anthropology at McGill University, I…
…The Anthropology Students Association, The Anthropology Graduate Students Association, World Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies Association, Black Students Network, Muslim Students Association, Students in Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, Thaqalayn…
…anthropology, the weasel word was “interpretation,” with research being reduced to “our interpretations of their interpretations” of what people are doing. This is the central argument of the most influential…
…(except for males, whites, Asians, Christians, and Jews) has a parallel set of demands at the cultural level. Today, in anthropology, it is forbidden to differentiate among cultures and societies,…
…actually read the book in its entirety, or even a part of it, is unknown to us. And, most egregiously, the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Ostearchaeology has called…
In their recent “Open Letter Demanding the Overhaul of McGill’s Statement of Academic Freedom,” the Anthropology Students Association and the Anthropology Graduate Student Association of McGill University have schooled us…
…refuted by the evidence. In my own field of anthropology, females earned more than 60% of the Ph.D. degrees by 2007. “From 2005 to 2015, women were 67 percent of…
…at McGill not to learn anthropology, but to teach anthropology. Perhaps this is because anthropology, once a discipline fact- and evidence-based, has been overtaken by ideological moralism, and rather than…
…“Why Doesn’t Diversity Training Work? The Challenge for Industry and Academia.” Anthropology Now 10(2): 48-55. Dobbin, Frank w/ Daniel Schrage & Alexandra Kalev (2015). “Rage against the Iron Cage: The…
…of biology, anthropology, and genetics have not achieved consensus on just how many different races currently exist (see Frisby, 2018, Table 13.1, pp. 283). The number of racial categories ranges…
…to a shocking 30.2-to-1 imbalance of Democrats to Republicans among anthropology faculty. Another study, written by Mitchell Langbert and Sean Stevens and published by the National Association of Scholars, found…
…Center for the Arts, and Anthropology. Enforce repercussions (as in, no hires) for departments that show no progress in appointing faculty of color. Elevate more faculty of color to prominent…
…the small anthropology department in which I taught for fifty years declared proudly that they were communists. Two others preferred to call themselves Marxists. One colleague in political science was…
…studies, Chicano studies, etc., “woke” ideology and virtue signaling spread rapidly to anthropology, sociology, political science, English, and other “humanistic” disciplines, social work, and education. From radical “social justice education…
…by other social science disciplines, such as anthropology. But activists advocating for one group or other have latched onto alleged category level “rights,” such as “equal representation.” If representation of…