…on ethics, human nature, peace, and justice, as well as a run-of-the-mill cultural anthropology class, I have studied how we often project dangers to humanity onto externalities rather than looking…

…nature of other societies and cultures. As an undergraduate and graduate student of both American cultural anthropology and British social anthropology, I read with fascination how different nonindustrial cultures organized…

…USAID: the United States Agency for International Development. [Related: “Anthropology in Ruins”] The other, perhaps more subtle, reason for this attack on Richard Hansen is the conclusions he comes to…

…course, does it make a difference? A Turn to the Objective: How do we explain social and racial disparities? As an instructor of anthropology, I would likely de-emphasize the subjective…

…Yet, here in the trenches, it looks very different. Anthropology, as a field, is continuing down its destructive path. My university—San Jose State University (SJSU)—and many others like it are…

…University Executive Team, 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…

…of understanding? Let me speak to cultural anthropology since that is the field in which I teach. Teaching About Combatting Racism How does one really teach about combatting racism? Can…

…philosophy of science.” Its Department of Physics seeks a professor whose main focus is “issues relevant to educational equity.” And its Department of Anthropology recently sought an archaeologist whose work…

While reading the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights, I found myself in a situation similar to that confronted by David Hume some centuries ago. Hume,…

…the mob that has come for Fiedler and Jussim has Mather’s scruples and charity? [Related: “Anthropology in Ruins”] Jussim and others already have articulated a critique from within the academy…

…fields of anthropology: cultural, linguistic, physical, and archaeological. One might, thus, expect sessions that combined these four fields, but the session titled “Seeking Continuity in a Dynamic Discipline: Scientific Anthropology’s…

…example, Arriaza et al.’s 2020 study, published in the prestigious American Journal of Physical Anthropology, on ancient mummy hair from Peru dating between 3000 BC and 1500 AD found evidence…

…chat, said “yes you insulted,” and enthusiastically thanked the indigenous studies professor for his comments. Then, a faculty member from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology stated that he thought…

…to support identity politics. My own experience was similar to that of many other academics. Eight student organizations—the Students’ Society of McGill University executive team, the Anthropology Students Association, the…

…obviously have never looked at Israelis and Palestinians. [Related: “Anthropology: From Pursuing Science to Endorsing Genocidal Terrorists”] Of course, the problem of the irrelevance of nugatory racial differences in Israel…

…of identity are frequently found in ethnic studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, communication, literature, and the like. However, even science classes, as noted in Part One, are incorporating identity, primarily from…

…society views as valuable would be required to repay their loan, while those with low-paying majors like gender studies, anthropology, or theater will essentially largely be excused from repaying. We…

…Canada. [Related: “Pride and Prejudice: Don’t You Dare Upend the ‘Race-Conscious’ Status Quo”] When considering multiculturalism, university students, at least the small sample I surveyed in my anthropology seminar, thought…

…standing and values. [Related: “Whatever Happened to Anthropology?”] Vocational training and technology offer young Americans alternatives to the career path that starts with a college degree, and skilled tradesmen are…

…set out in S.F. Nadel’s “The Foundations of Social Anthropology” (1951). Radcliffe-Brown characterized social anthropology as a subdivision of comparative sociology. In contrast, American cultural anthropology was founded by Franz…

…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…

…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…