Anthropology conference is overrun with sessions like "Pronouns, Bottoms, Cat-Ears And Cuerpes, Girl: For An Intersectional Trans Linguistic Anthropology"

I remember finding an old book in the uni stacks, some anthro prof wrote a huge fieldwork novel about how he fell in love with a minor from the tribe he was living with but he only married her for science or smth

Yeah I grew up in an environment where the theory and the paper is highly encouraged. Part of me really regrets spending so much effort and time on that now when I see how just uninspired and lame it is compared to much better options.

>PCR testing

PCR testing is also just anthropology.

If you gave an archaeologist shattered fragments of a pyrex measuring cup, a Marsey coffee cup, and a bunch of packets of Filipino and Indonesian spices they wouldn't have the faintest fricking clue who I am. And I'm right here living in their society. But with the same kind of evidence they're ready to tell you every thought and emotion of a person who lived 4000 years ago.

Also it REALLY MAKES YOU THINK that they find so much stuff from around 1000-3000 BC, an era when we don't have any solid historical tradition. But then times when populations were massive and thriving like Mesopotamia under Achaemenid Persia and half the world in the late Roman Empire, they don't find anything. I don't want to sound cynical, but maybe it's because they still fund their digs by selling artifacts and you can get more cash from a pagan fertility goddess in 30,000 BC than a Phyrgian peasant's icon in 600 AD.

I went on an archaeology field study and literally did sci-fi level bullpooping about some little hutts and mounds we found in Belize. I got an A for 11 pages of lies.

religious purposes

Milton Friedman bridged that gap by calling for testable hypotheses; otherwise, much of it becomes atheoretic nonsense (postmodernism). Keynes's dad separated economics into two realms: as a positive science and as a normative science; James Buchanan expounded upon this difference to a (nauseating) degree. Then you've got guys like Popper calling out more pseudoscience for being unfalsifiable. There's also the legacy of Keynes and other macroeconomists who 'rendered' society into measurable units.

It's not perfect, but there's still room between physics envy and the soft, dirty data. Then there's the naysayers who have been stuck chasing their own tails for decades ( to Wittgenstein), and you end up with garbage as seen in the OP.

Undid the previous century's migration theories basically

They're Lemurians from Atlantis and it's why there was a secret world leaders summit in antarctica

ew no

Oberlin would never, ever cut a program for being useless.

Why would I want humans to have more knowledge? They do so much damage with the little they have.

UCT i bet lol

Lmao docked but not failed

C's get degrees, profcuck

Anthropology of anthropologist, like sociology of sociology.

M E T A A N T H R O P O L O G Y

Why are normies so reluctant to talk about ethnic stench? It's literally one of the easiest thing to nootice by far but no one wants to tell most nogs and jeets they stink.

Lol, the first thing that came to my mind was that dude as well

Yeah but what did she actually do? Say that African magic doesn't work?

I was so innocent I had no idea we'd end up with every paper in the future being like that.

Everyone in the Gender Studies and related fields percieves themselves as a victim so they aren't going to do anything to disrupt the circlejerk. If you get into one of those programs you can crank out any old shit and as long as it isn't an obvious parody you'll get a top degree. Shit you could probably GPT3 your way through it these days, especially if you look the part.

I don't know about queerness under Maccabees, just about queer bandit gangs vs Romans a few centuries later

"With their insatiable hunger for loot, they ransacked the houses of the wealthy, murdered men and violated women for sport; they guzzled their loot washed down with blood and from mere satiety, they shamefully gave themselves up to effeminate practices, plaiting their hair and putting on women’s clothes, drenching themselves with perfumes and painting their eyelids to make themselves attractive. They copied not merely the dress, but also the passions of women, devising in their excess of licentiousness unlawful pleasures in which they wallowed as in a brothel. Thus they entirely polluted the city with their foul practices. Yet though they wore women’s faces, their hands were murderous. They would approach with mincing steps, and, whipping out their swords from under dyed cloaks, they would impale passers-by."

Flavius Josephus – the Jewish War (iv.ix.10.)

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