The American Anthropological Association has announced that the human race has evolved into a new species called Zoomo sapien, referring to the detrimental effects of working from home.
“The features that distinguish this species from the previous Homo sapiens are very distinct,” remarked chief r
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Not long ago, heading out to an academic conference where I was scheduled to take part in a panel examining “alternative” careers for humanities degree holders and looking for airplane reading, I grabbed from my bookshelf three aging publications:
Getting a Job Outside the Academy: A Special Publication of the American Anthropological Association (1982), and
Humanities Ph.D.s and Nonacademic Careers: A Guide for Faculty Advisers (1983). After I got home, I retrieved an even earlier publication, Rita Jacobs’s
in the Humanities (1977). Each of these publications could benefit from some minor updating to make them fully relevant today, but the overall impression is that after roughly four decades, they have weathered surprising well.
The hard sciences once seemed immune to the politics that dominate the humanities and social sciences, but no longer. A growing assemblage of scientists has singled out Israel as the one nation on earth that must be excluded from all normal contact with other nations.
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Why Anthropology Matters
It’s the antidote to nativism, the enemy of hate a vaccine of understanding, tolerance and compassion that can counter the rhetoric of demagogues
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Forbes ranked anthropology as the least valuable undergraduate major, unleashing a small wave of indignation as many outside the field rushed to defend the study of culture as ideal preparation for any life or career in an interconnected and globalized world. The response from professional anthropologists, confronted by both an existential challenge and public humiliation, was earnest but largely ineffective, for the voice of the discipline had been muted by a generation of self-absorption, tempered by a disregard for popular engagement that borders on contempt.