A Case For Why Anthropology Shouldn't Be Handled By Arsonists
I've been recently troubled by a line of thinking in Anthropology, and this subject is going to require context. The field I find myself in has a bleak history, and that is putting it very kindly. We're implicated in supporting such glowing moments in history as racism, eugenics, and colonialism. So is biology, psychology aaaand most anything else you can think of. The way the field developed is well within the boundary of Western hegemony which means that, in order to talk about human diversity, we've mainly been doing that based on ideas originating in Europe and held together by a complete dominion over ideas for centuries. However, built into the history of Anthropology are movements in opposition to this harrowing past. I can think of two without needing to dig for references. Cultural relativisims and structuralism, for instance, were a response to eugenics and racism. As the basis for Biological Anthropology, Darwin's theory of evolution provided the