Clarissa's Blog

I’ve always despised the American Anthropological Association (AAA) but I’m only now discovering what a cesspool of pathetic, stupid, vicious little creatures it is. I now have a new-found admiration for the MLA because, for all our faults, we don’t stoop to the lows of the AAA.

The field of anthropology is dying not only because the small communities it used to study no longer exist in the kind of isolation that makes studying them of value to anthropology but also because the field stopped doing scholarship and started doing ideology. And that never works.