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….