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What are the quoted session titles meant to illustrate? I thought those were meant to show poor research quality, and whereas "unsettling" does imply bias, I ca
by rhn_mk1 4y ago
What are the quoted session titles meant to illustrate? I thought those were meant to show poor research quality, and whereas "unsettling" does imply bias, I can't see anything special in “Pronouns, Bottoms, Cat-Ears And Cuerpes, Girl: For An Intersectional Trans Linguistic Anthropology”. It seems like research on a linguistic trend.
- fastball 4y agoI think a big part of the author's issue is the focus on current anthropological "study" rather than historical anthropological science – both when it comes to the things studied (their issue with the talk you mention) but also when it comes to priorities, e.g. caring too much (my impression of author's opinion) about whether or not something is sacred / etc. Clearly the author is a person that likes anthropology for what it can tell us about history and the past and prefers to do this in a way that is as strongly scientific as possible (read: falsifiable). Whether or not her version of anthropology is the right one is up to the reader. As with a lot of modern science there is a lot of jockying for funding, and Weiss is potentially venting frustration that such things are getting funding in place of work she finds more important / productive.