Marxists vs. Darwinists in the anthropology department
Hannah Fearn at Times Higher Education has an article on the warring factions of anthropology departments. Fearn presents this divide as evolutionary anthropologists versus social anthropologists. Actually, there are more schools of anthropology than these two, but Fearn offers an oversimplified public introduction to the subject, with varied commentary, that may be helpful to the new student.
“In some departments they hardly speak. … universities now face a challenge in keeping their anthropology departments operating civilly.”
Students entering the study of anthropology should be warned in advance that they are entering a fragmented and politicized discipline. They may be forced to choose sides very early in their career and waste their time negotiating their way through academic politics.
The article generally ignores the fact that feminist anthropology has now been entirely discredited by follow-up research studies by responsible anthropologists. Some comments in this article treat feminist anthropology as a sort of unfortunate failed series of hypotheses rather than a bogus political movement based on sloppy research methods offering false conclusions as part of the Marxist takeover of the academy.
Readers of The Hidden Masters understand the fatal flaw of anthropology and are spared from wasting their time with pseudoscientific poseurs and academic politics. What should we do about the war between the Marxists and the Darwinists inside the universities? Answer: cut the socialist funding for all of them. Let them find their own sources of funding. An unfunded Marxist has an opportunity to become a polite and responsible member of a society and find a productive occupation.
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