Anthropology
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Powered By Osteons: Why Is Anthropology Needed?
When I was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, the fake major that everyone joked about was underwater basketweaving. I suspect there is a similar joke on every college campus, but I was surprised when Rick Scott, the governor of Florida, suggested that anthropology is a woo-woo field . There's been a quick and passionate response from anthropologists and journalists around the web, including from the American Anthropological Association, Mother Jones, and the University of South Florida's anthropology department.
"Trial by media" is very much a feature of political life at the moment, and it works largely because it seems that the public has different standards of proof for misdemeanours among those in public life from those it maintains for private citizens. In public life it is enough to be "tainted" with suspicion for one's future to be blighted.
Shame-Culture and Guilt-Culture
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1958) Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology Source: Structural Anthropology , 1958 publ.
Structural Anthropology, by Claude Lévi-Strauss
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Main Page
The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook has expanded greatly since its creation, and now contains hundred of local files as well as links to source texts throughout the net. See Introduction for an explanation of the Sourcebook's goals.