[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But what the NYT review reveals most is the disarray that has > characterized anthropology in recent decades. Opinions are > all over the lot, often contradicting one another. Much of > the critique from anthropologists is so superficial as to be > embarrassing for the discipline.
My background was in history, where we usually shook our heads at the anthropologists, and they shook theirs back at us. Reading the article gave me a painful sense that Diamond is looking through one end of a telescope at the world while his critics are looking through the other. Diamond's wide-angle view makes it easier to tell a single broadly consistent story, while his opponents' close up gives them a lot of different perspectives. I'm not sure that's particularly damning for either side. (But no, I don't find the chart that useful either.) Thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
