tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645839568564602372.post8927023026648433347..comments2024-01-16T20:32:16.809-06:00Comments on Teaching Anthropology: Reason Number 5,782,496 Why Anthropologists Are a Pain in the AssPamthropologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061905270637904812noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645839568564602372.post-32164994165088860122009-05-09T12:04:00.000-05:002009-05-09T12:04:00.000-05:00Hahaha! Awesome.Hahaha! Awesome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645839568564602372.post-8200657465742534452009-05-09T01:56:00.000-05:002009-05-09T01:56:00.000-05:00I like/agree with the perspective... but I wonder;...I like/agree with the perspective... but I wonder; our discipline doesn't like to set up an us/them othering perspective? Why do I keep hearing (from anthropologists!) that "anthropology is the study of the other"? I'd always thought it was the study (-ology) of humans (anthrops). Sadly, I think we still have a very, very long way to go before (if ever?) anthropologist get off their Kipling-esque (neo)colonial high-horse (and as well, long before those who make their living regurgiating the (neo)colonial critique allow the discipline to move on).Socectnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645839568564602372.post-47523881830359131932009-05-09T01:22:00.000-05:002009-05-09T01:22:00.000-05:00ah, don't worry, the psych person will just label ...ah, don't worry, the psych person will just label you as having preliminary symptoms of postmodern depression, or maybe "borderline functionalist personality."R.A.http://www.ethnografix.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com