As examples of what my academic field, anthropology, has sunk to, here are four responses to the shooting and riots in Ferguson appearing in the current issue of Anthropology News….

…a junior, majoring in literature and anthropology. His religion is Muslim. He also happens to dislike the pervasive “Help, I’m an oppressed victim” mindset he finds on campus and had…

…Of this number, Jackie could identify two—Drew, the ringleader and a fellow lifeguard; and a student from her Anthropology seminar (call him A.S.). Jackie’s success (or failure) in presenting this…

…a classroom, is very often larded with coursework that contributes little to the teacher’s in-class experience. The education major has experienced a great deal of bleed-through from sociology and anthropology…

…AAA calls an “engaged anthropology” that is “committed to supporting social change efforts that arise from the interaction between community goals and anthropological research.” –Anthopologists for the Boycott of Israeli…

…remains.” Whatever she is doing–drama, anthropology, history–it is a far cry from literary study. But even American literature anthologies have scalp dances and rain dances crowding out William Bradford and…

…branches of humanities as we know them, including literature, linguistics, anthropology and history. Wide in application but narrow in method, philology concerned itself with un-raveling layers of meaning in texts…

…drivers, and in retail stores. Students with degrees in, say, anthropology or ethnic studies often find it nearly impossible to get a good job, a problem that may afflict liberal…

When I was an undergraduate in the early 1970s at an elite liberal arts college, my anthropology professor assigned me as a paper topic, “Why do nearly all the students…

…anthropology, I have lived through the replacement of “consensus” on the idea that the makers of the so-called Clovis spear points, which go back 13,500 years, were the first Native…

…have to. (Sample disclaimer: “We are reading this work in spite of the author’s racist frameworks because his work was foundational to establishing the field of anthropology, and because I…

…videos. So far, there has been nary a peep from Brodhead’s office. However, an anthropology professor who heads the Duke Human Rights Center wrote an op-ed in the Raleigh News…

…trots out, as if representative, the “recent graduate in anthropology with a $100,000 loan.” He uses this example to bolster the conclusion that “few graduates have the ability to pay…

…to understand. The model is participant-observer anthropology, not the Western missionary. Academic credit will be based on summarizing these experiences and contrasting them to what now occurs in the U.S….

…observational and experimental methods of the natural sciences, the social sciences–including anthropology, economics, political science and government, sociology, and psychology–examine and predict behavioral and organizational processes. Together, they help us…

…she writes, “I threw myself into super-Indianness, taking both of the Native-studies courses offered by the university’s anthropology department. I participated in a summer internship program for Native students and…

…anthropology degrees, and a Florida task force recently suggested that humanities majors should pay higher tuition. But this is central planning, not innovation. The beauty of a higher education market…

…as is often the case, may find their employer paying them to complete a B.A. It is something the 17-year old who wants to study anthropology should keep in mind. …

My sorry academic discipline, anthropology, has been in the news the last few weeks. Napoleon Chagnon broke his long silence by publishing a memoir, Noble Savages, about his work among…

…5000 years of patriarchy. We can do better. Lionel Tiger is Darwin professor of anthropology emeritus at Rutgers University and author of The Decline of Males and The Pursuit of Pleasure….

…egg-eating vegetarians.  Is Anthropology 101 Real?   But I digress. Terrestia, my hypothetical research group, shouldn’t stop with freshman American history.  There are lots of other subjects in the college…