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Session titles included:
• “Pronouns, Bottoms, Cat-Ears And Cuerpes, Girl: For An Intersectional Trans Linguistic Anthropology”
• “Unsettling Whiteness: Race And Religion In The United States”
• “On Indigenous People’s Terms: Unsettling Landscapes Through Remapping Practices”
• “Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Critical Genealogies and Decolonizing Futures”
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Anthro, which is mostly cultural anthro, has ALWAYS been like this. It's a baseless soft science where perverts and degenerates noootice things and write papers about them.
Any real anthro discovery nowadays is due to archaelogy, linguistics, physics and chemistry. Once they started using genes instead of cultural inferences to track human populations it was over for anthrocels.
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Oh interesting. Genetics has changed much about anthro theories then? I find archeology discoveries good
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Undid the previous century's migration theories basically
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20th century migration theories were just every ethnicity claiming to be white or Jewish descendants lmao
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It literally killed anthropology, the theory papers have already been done to death, the only thing left for anthrocels is now PCR testing until they switch jobs.
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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
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That's Kenneth Good, the girl thankfully abandoned that frick when he took her to the US.
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He seems to have written his own wikipedia page.
I didn't want to be a sick libertarian and ruin her life. I was just trying to be polite! Why does everyone accuse Napoleon Chagnon and his disciples of going to this impoverished population and buying s*x slaves when all we're doing is following local customs? What... what's... where are you putting me, that... ow my feet...
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I loved anthropology.
It was such a community college level burner class. We literally had to write a book review about this fictional ethnography where this Lesbian American Anthropologist falls in love with a Brazilian child prostitute orphan. Literal meme shit.
Literal libertarian shit.
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My anthro prof was a legit beatnick, dude had stories of doing mescaline with natives during his undergrad times, played the trumpet too (he was so old the trumpet was still cool)
Def my fav burner class. Smoke a doobie and listen to some old guy bloviate about big men and pottery and shamanic trances
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Yeah anthro professors can be hella based. I had one who mostly worked on carbon dating human remains who got consulted by police whenever they found a skeleton. We had a whole lecture on how to identify a corpse by the way the ground shifted as it decomposes. First the decomposition causes a hole in the ground, then a second deeper hole when the chest collapses, etc.
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That's super neat. I think the only archaeologists that make money consistently work for the cops.
My fav has always been paleo ethno botany, where they can find trade routes based on dating the plants someone ate.
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That’s a movie right there
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what a great looking woman he got! imagine forcibly marrying someone, and even then, this is what you have to settle for
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Lmao.
Antrhopology was definitely a fun science both for drama and researching, a shame it had to go the way it did.
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Part of me thinks titles like these and the sorts of presentations in that article are good for drama. They are stupid and pointless creative writing level, and for the most part are like a fantasy. I guess they have fun with it, and we can make fun of them so yea.
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I can think of several anthropology dudes that did that
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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.
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Second bot response?
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PCR testing is also just anthropology.
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archaeology is the EXACT SAME bullshit but they have to dig up a broken piece of trash first before they can make up a story around it
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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.
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They could doxx you with these by fingerprints alone probs.
Was buried deeper, so it wasn't dug out and repurposed by Romans and later civilizations.
You just don't hear about it, because it doesn't sound cool in a newspaper, unlike a pagan fertility goddess in 30,000 BC.
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Anthro is def fickle, if ur not studying the hot trend u don't get money. Even though u might find something groundbreaking or whatever, if it's not whatever is in style some dude will write a book about a fossilized turd and retire on it
Also probably red tape. Lots of digs are in countries that can be bribed or don't care. The middle east and China don't want yt ppl muckin around their artifacts
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Turkey is especially terrible about this. They're sitting on top of a huge share of the stuff you'd want to dig up, but they have this whole delusional narrative about being warriors from the steppe, not Greeks who were assimilated to speak Turkish, so they want to suppress their entire history up until 1056. An entire nation of people who think archaeology is a zionist game because it says they're 80% Greek.
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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.
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religious purposes
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Ok but they used to crush native puss, so they've still taken quite a fall
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How would you study human behavior as a "hard science"
I never get these people who get pissed at things that aren't scientifically measurable not being sciences
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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.
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Medium-functioning autism vs low-functioning autism
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Experimental physics is awesome though, you get paid just to do cool shit and write about it and the mathcels get the work of understanding it
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Macroeconomics is useful in general, its a nice abstraction of an infinitely complex reality. Its also probably the best we can do until we have hypercomputers that process the entirety of information at once.
On the other hand, this bullshit could be understood as a form of poetry or self-reflective writing. I'm not opposed to this in general. This sort of writing can be a powerful way to communicate anout complex ideas and emotions. However, the downside is you neccesarily only hear one perspective - the affluent, liberal college student's perspective.
I imagine the truest form of this is going to an old indian dude, giving him a bunch of beer, and listen to what he says. I guarantee that what he says will be infinitely more interesting than listening to a student's perspective on indian culture.
This actually happened to me once, it was an indian professor of a gen ed history class who happened to not give a singular shit about the curriculum, but mostly just talked about things that interested him and his experiences with the things he was talking about (Vietnam). I thought it was weird at the time, but i look back on it as one of the best classes I took in college.
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Macroeconomists tend to fit the data into accordance with their
storytheory, which isn't necessarily bad science. It's the predictive modeling that's a pipe dream.Jump in the discussion.
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I've read better bots than this.
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Same, my fav profs were the ones that went on tangents
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Mommy is soooo proud of you, sweaty. Let's put this sperg out up on the fridge with all your other failures.
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They still don’t even know who the Sea Peoples are.
L M A O
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They're Lemurians from Atlantis and it's why there was a secret world leaders summit in antarctica
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That’s bullshit anti-Tartarian propaganda to cover up the existence of the mud floods
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This is white supremacist misinformation
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