A Crisis of Craptastic
So, it hit me. I'm becoming cynical about my major. Okay, I'm starting to hate it. Sure, Anthropologists talk about being an "applied" social science, but applied how? There is a critical fear in anthropology of becoming policy makers. There is no reason for being anti-policy, except to say that they don't want to be decision makers. They want to collect volumes of cultural knowledge and store them at some library, then bitch about how they're poor.
Anthropology, for those who don't know, is a biological, cognitive, social and cultural science that constructs the human expirience through a number of realms, most notably culture. They see culture as a medium of expressing human knowledge and behaviors. The previous prediliction held with studying tribalism and far flung cultures has given away to a science that is, as William Carlos Williams put it, stale as a whales breath. Anthropologists are better suited to stare out of Kafka's windows than to open the door, but that's because there is no concensus on what the anthropologist "is." Sounds dumb right?
Well it is.
Anthropologists all quote eachother, and only write an "ethnography." If you use a political science or sociological source, you have to "Back it up with relevant ethnographic material." Boo-fuckin-hoo.
I hate anthropology today. I like certain things in general. Anthropology of Europe is a good course. And Men and masculinity. The rest is too friggin "anthropological"
Anthropology, for those who don't know, is a biological, cognitive, social and cultural science that constructs the human expirience through a number of realms, most notably culture. They see culture as a medium of expressing human knowledge and behaviors. The previous prediliction held with studying tribalism and far flung cultures has given away to a science that is, as William Carlos Williams put it, stale as a whales breath. Anthropologists are better suited to stare out of Kafka's windows than to open the door, but that's because there is no concensus on what the anthropologist "is." Sounds dumb right?
Well it is.
Anthropologists all quote eachother, and only write an "ethnography." If you use a political science or sociological source, you have to "Back it up with relevant ethnographic material." Boo-fuckin-hoo.
I hate anthropology today. I like certain things in general. Anthropology of Europe is a good course. And Men and masculinity. The rest is too friggin "anthropological"