…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…
…the last people in the world to believe in Marxism. From that time, Marxist anthropology, Marxist sociology, Marxist political science, and Marxist geography became an important fixture in universities, where…
…students want to major in fields like anthropology, art history, and English, 63% of administrators have backgrounds in the arts, humanities and social sciences – three times the number of…
…in math, physical sciences, engineering, and computer science. Some 60% of Ph.Ds in sociology, anthropology, and linguistics were awarded to females. [Why Are So Many Campus Feminists Anti-Male?] However, the…
…anthropology. But even in anthropology, there are researchers devoted to a scientific approach. Some of them huddle together in the Society for Anthropological Science, which says that it “was organized…
…was found in a turn to moralism and political activism. This drew on the critical Marxist anthropology of the 1970s and came to fruition in the most popular anthropology book…
…are not compatible, and, more specifically, that equality and freedom are incompatible. I submitted it initially to a distinguished anthropology journal that turned it down with the editor’s remark that…
…support freedom of speech. My own anthropology students at McGill University, asked whether they favored human rights, as set out by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, endorsed…
…that is legally — equal. Most decisions are made democratically and in a decentralized fashion. Individual families have considerable autonomy. Related: How Anthropology Was Corrupted and Killed Tribes do two…
Soon after arriving at McGill University in 1968 from a year of ethnographic field research in Iran, I met an intelligent and sincere young man, an anthropology student, who told…
…the AAUP and the AAC&U mean by the “liberal arts.” Related: How They Hijacked Anthropology They are definitely not defending the ideals of disinterested inquiry in the core subjects of…
…influences led to this shift: One was the morphing of symbolic anthropology into interpretive anthropology under the influence of Clifford Geertz, who distanced himself from science and likened anthropology to…
…fighting wildfires. I passed up that career in favor of the far more practical training in social anthropology. But sometimes it seems I still ended up in the business of…
…we see him in dialogue with the adolescent reptilian brain. Amazing. The students are perfectly moronic in their virtue. Send the video over to the anthropology department. Jean Cocteau once…
…be true of the elastic concept of “gender,” which has been thrust on American culture as the all-purpose substitute for sex. As it happens, my discipline, anthropology, bears some responsibility…
…about the sheer variety of ways humans can go about being human. But then anthropology touched its relativistic bottom. In the 1980s it collectively decided that anthropology itself was ethnocentric….
…and literature. The effect if not the purpose of this restriction was to exclude a number of fields — they mention psychology, anthropology, education, and all the race/ethnicity/gender “studies” programs…