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We also have a culture, and anthropologists don't only study distant tribes. I'm in Turkey and have a few anthropologist friends here studying everything from t
by ebiester 14y ago
We also have a culture, and anthropologists don't only study distant tribes. I'm in Turkey and have a few anthropologist friends here studying everything from the statistics department to television stations to poor Turks displaced by gentrification. An ethnography on a single evangelical church has been published. If it's a group of people, an anthropologist is either studying or considering studying it.
- ommunist 14y agommm. This recalls me the situation when a young monkey is taken into lab to the elder one and asks what is the monkey job. The elder one puffs: "Its anthropological research!". "What is it?" - asks the young one. "You see, I push this button and measure how fast these large white monkeys will give me a banana".
- potatolicious 14y agoAh there it is, my daily dose of "programmer snarkily trivializes a complex field". I was wondering what took so long.