Anthro back then was euro explorers wrangling with the most savage and inhospitable environments of the planet to learn about unique tribes and peoples with unique life experiences, now its about university twaddles reading about "sex attitudes in postmodern 80s Berlin" or bullshyte like that What happened?
>>18002506Technology lowered the barrier for entry. Back then the only way to get into contact with remote peoples was extensive land surveys in countries that had no communication infrastructure, which means the only people willing to perform this kind of work were hardened explorers. In the early 20th century, the invention of the airplane lowered the barrier for entry slightly, which lead to the golden age of the "Academic Explorer". People like Hiram Bingham III for example who made extensive use of Gyrocopters to survey Mesoamerican and South American jungles and made contact with local tribes and inspired fictional explorers like Indiana Jones and Tintin Today there is virtually no barrier for entry when even the biggest third world shitholes have internet access now through Starlink and surveys can now be conducted via satellite and Drones with LIDAR
>>18002506The end of colonialism. Evans-Pritchard himself is a good example: back in the day you could just get money from the government to go to Africa and conduct research there because the colonial administration could maybe potentially make use of your findings.
>>18002506Primitive natives are just not that interesting
Pretty sure they have their own YouTube channels
>>18002547Many of them offer VERY interesting insights to our own past and the history of human society, your position reflects the lack of curiosity and sense of wonder and adventure of this age. >>18002516Technology lowered the barrier of entry, but it made it a lot easier to know the answers to many questions we had before, if anything, that should pump peole up with excitement! I blame the current wave of anti-intellectualism that's taken hold of the west recently
>>18002575Do you have some good ones anon?
>>18002637no I just know of them. everybody wants to put their stuff on the internet
Thanks to Napoleon Chagnon anthropology is a non-science.They had to scrap most work and destroy the scientific output because it turns out most anthropologist where pedophiles exchanging tools drugs and weapons agains little girls and power. It worked well because the poeple lived in isolation, anthropologist where the only who spoke tha language and knew where they were, no mobile phones etc.
>>18002506>REEEEEEE why won't they go out and say those fucking NIGGERS are inferior to me REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>18002506Because it’s becoming a meta-commentary on the field and more concerned about colonialism and its inpacts rather than truly understanding people’s cultures
>>18002752>more concerned about colonialism and its inpacts rather than truly understanding people’s culturesYou can't really major separate historical events from culture.
>>18002756There are more interesting ways to go about it than a never ending struggle session
>>18002778But it's not unless you are really adamant to frame it as such for some strange reason.
>>18002590>I blame the current wave of anti-intellectualism that's taken hold of the west recentlyYou guys have control over the universities. If anything I think over-intellectualism is the problem and common sense wisdom is being undervalued.
>>18002746If what you thought I meant was leracism and le white supremacy you missed the point so badly... I genuinely find the lives of remote tribes and different walks of human life interesting goddamnit!
>>18002819Who the fuck is "you guys"?
>>18002744This sounds awful,but ironically, from an anthro perspective interesting. Got any books or sources on this?
>>18002865Don't be daft
>>18002506Real anthropology perpetuates harmful White supremacist bigoted neo-Nazi stereotypes
>>18002819Common sense, gut instinct, and street smarts are all phrases used by the uneducated to hold their feelings up as being equal or superior to the knowledge of the educated.
>>18003188No ir doesn't, because even when the field was "racist", nazis were seen as kooks for their crackpot fringe theorys of himalayan aryan supermen and whatnot
>>18002870Just google his name. It was a huge controversy in Anthro
>>18002506There's nothing outside worth discovering anymore. So now we just nitpick minute differences between superficial fads of last week vs today.>>18003188>anthropology makes you want to give up your rights to an oppressive socialist shithole that lasted 12 yearsNo.
>>18003356The irony was that the field was filled with pet conspiracy theories before and after the Nazis.
>>18002506There are some great old films from the 30s about Abos and Pygmies. They were still thin and fit and happy at that point and the narrators could just call them the "savages" that they were. """Modern Anthropology""" has become completely disconnected from modern biology and genomics and is now simply another platform for deranged, Leftist, Gllobalist ideologies.
>>18002744>look him up>He just presented people as violent>anon posting epstein level stuffAnon, are you lying on the internet?
>>18004979Anthropology has a big hippie problem.
A lot of you never took any college anthropology classes and it shows, I’ll let you people figure out which group I’m talking about
Studying urban subcultures is just applying anthropological methods to contemporary life.
