On Licensing Anthropologists

Anthropologists' views on race, ancestry, and genetics

Controversies over race conceptualizations have been ongoing for centuries and have been shaped, in part, by anthropologists. OBJECTIVE To assess anthropologists' views on race, genetics, and ancestry. METHODS In 2012 a broad national survey of anthropologists examined prevailing views on race, ancestry, and genetics. RESULTS Results demonstrate consensus that there are no human biologica...

Applied Anthropology and the American Anthropologists.

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Strengthening Links Between Anthropologists and System Dynamicists

In this brief communication, we argue for more systematic and self-conscious attention, within the field of system dynamics, to the process of knowledge sharing for the purposes of model construction. After explaining our rationale, we provide a number of examples showing how various groups of people---often those with central roles in the problems being modeled---are marginalized, their voices...

Cultural Politics and Spiritual Making of Anthropologists

Ethnographic studies of religion, stuck somewhere between ethnocentrism and literalism (especially in the case of Islam), have brought little distinctive anthropological analysis to bear successfully on the practical realities and political ideologies of religions. On the other hand, the popular assertion that certain ethnic groups, having had conflicts over centuries, will continue to fight wi...