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The three Great Controversies of Anthropology
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2021 May 13, 2:24pm 465 views 6 comments
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Bd6r
2021 May 13, 2:34pm
Bd6r
2021 May 13, 2:34pm
I would add another one - idea that Chaco culture Indians were peaceful, while it is well known that they were cannibals. If you go to Chaco NM, nowhere does it say that they ate other humans.
https://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/readings/Cannibals.pdf
The theory that seems to make most sense was that some group from Aztec culture area came and conquered locals some time in 9th century, as before that cannibalism in Chaco area was not known.
https://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/readings/Cannibals.pdf
The theory that seems to make most sense was that some group from Aztec culture area came and conquered locals some time in 9th century, as before that cannibalism in Chaco area was not known.
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Ceffer
2021 May 13, 2:36pm
Ceffer
2021 May 13, 2:36pm
You could probably throw in Jane Goodall and her 'noble, peaceful monkeys' though animal rather than human ethnography.
As time has told, they murderously invade in bands other tribes of monkeys, engage in infanticide and re-impregnation of conquered females, and are enthusiastic cannibals, along with engaging non-communistic social hierarchies, often based on pussy capital and social privilege.
As time has told, they murderously invade in bands other tribes of monkeys, engage in infanticide and re-impregnation of conquered females, and are enthusiastic cannibals, along with engaging non-communistic social hierarchies, often based on pussy capital and social privilege.
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AmericanKulak
2021 May 13, 2:38pm
AmericanKulak
2021 May 13, 2:38pm
Chagnon's Book about his experiences with the AAA:
https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Savages-Dangerous-Yanomamo-Anthropologists-ebook/dp/B006VJN2FE
https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Savages-Dangerous-Yanomamo-Anthropologists-ebook/dp/B006VJN2FE
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Ceffer
2021 May 13, 2:42pm
Ceffer
2021 May 13, 2:42pm
MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says
Lol! The Yanomamo were chronically intoxicated rape and feud engines.
Yanomamo
Lol! The Yanomamo were chronically intoxicated rape and feud engines.
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AmericanKulak
2021 May 13, 2:54pm
AmericanKulak
2021 May 13, 2:54pm
The truth about Tierney, the "Anthropological Journalist" who smeared Chagnon, his circular and misleading footnotes, and how UC Santa Barbara and the AAA couldn't wait to go after him:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-011-9103-y
Needless to say, NPR and the New Yorker loved to go after Chagnon also. As did the Salesian Priesthood in the area, the ones who actually DID provide shotguns to the Yanomamo and fought against their MMR jabs. I wonder if they're under the same Archbishopric, that despite going through billions of dollars, didn't "frock" a single Indian Priest and brought the Yo'mamma idol to the Vatican of decades of "Work" in the region.
In fact, all of the false testimony for Tierney's hitpiece came from the Salesians.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-011-9103-y
Needless to say, NPR and the New Yorker loved to go after Chagnon also. As did the Salesian Priesthood in the area, the ones who actually DID provide shotguns to the Yanomamo and fought against their MMR jabs. I wonder if they're under the same Archbishopric, that despite going through billions of dollars, didn't "frock" a single Indian Priest and brought the Yo'mamma idol to the Vatican of decades of "Work" in the region.
In fact, all of the false testimony for Tierney's hitpiece came from the Salesians.
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AmericanKulak
2021 Aug 4, 4:21pm
AmericanKulak
2021 Aug 4, 4:21pm
Reading Chagnon's "Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes: The Yanomano and the Anthropologists"
It's a great read as he jumps back and forth between the Yanomano, and their constant wars - usually over women - and the Anthropologists who hated his geneaology proofs of conflict, description of "Husband Service" (the man must serve the bride's family for several seasons) as it hurty their PoMo worldview of Kultur Uber Alles.
In Chapter 4 now, strong recommend, it flows well and contains humor and insight.
It's a great read as he jumps back and forth between the Yanomano, and their constant wars - usually over women - and the Anthropologists who hated his geneaology proofs of conflict, description of "Husband Service" (the man must serve the bride's family for several seasons) as it hurty their PoMo worldview of Kultur Uber Alles.
In Chapter 4 now, strong recommend, it flows well and contains humor and insight.
Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa - in reality, even before Protestant Conversion, the Samoans tightly controlled girls' sexuality like most traditional civilizations, and frowned upon Bi and Homosexuality. Mead being a bi or lesbian herself, and an advocate of free love, wanted to "prove" she was correct by "Finding" natives who would support her theory about it being "natural everywhere". In fact, Mead didn't even want to go to Samoa, she spent as little time as possible in order to go on to, I believe, the Trobriand Islands. Contrary to her claims of extensive study, she spend mere days at the USN/USCG infirmary on Samoa, interviewing a handful of girls in a Westernized, Authority-connected building.
David Stoll's - Rigoberta Menchu - pointing out that the poor peasant Communist was actually the daughter of a Middling Farmer, that she lied about having a brother who died of starvation, was literate to at least a 9th Grade level in Spanish despite her claim she was not, went to two CatholicPrep Schools despite the claim to illiteracy, etc. Naturally the Western Leftist Establishment took Menchu at her word since she "confirmed" all their biases.
Napoleon Changon - Yanomami - the Noble Savage/Primitive Communism ideologues were incensed by Changnon's work and have spent a lifetime hurling insults at him, despite most of their claims being fabricated out of whole cloth. His description of Yanomani society also drew hysterics from Feminists as this Matrilineal and Polyandrynous (many husbands for a wife) is one of the most violent on the planet. The American Anthropological Association has done everything from accuse him of passing weapons to the Yanomami, to spreading measles on purpose amongst them. I believe Chagnon (like the other cases, esp. Mead) basically exploded the opposite assertion made by a Lefty Anthropologist in an earlier generation that was done in a sloppy manner to confirm bias.
I would add a fourth, which is the assertion of American Anthropologists that the Maya were largely peaceful and pacific in the 30s-70s, which is now entirely exploded due to the huge volume of bones showing signs of trauma everywhere there's a Mayan temple, and abundant evidence of warfare