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It’s one thing to give a TED talk, and quite another to conduct further research during the very TED talk you’re giving. In a recent, thought-provoking post, Jan Chipchase, the well-known Nokia design anthropologist, confessed to just how disingenuous he found the applause that greeted him two years earlier.
You might think that such an (free [...]
According to the recent Times Higher Education Supplement article on the “The Great Divide” between social anthropologists and evolutionary anthropologists,
“This division dates back to the 1970s, when eminent American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (now retired emeritus professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara) presented his work on the Yanomami tribes of Venezuela in the context [...]
In a post on “Anthropology as connoisseurship”, Rex of Savage Minds observes:
Obsession with the details also does not fly well in an age when what we are supposed to be doing is creating generalizing social science. So perhaps connoisseurship as a model of anthropology has drawbacks both for the politically engaged and the scientifically neutral. [...]
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