Biology department evolves at FAS

alohanico:

The end of four-field anthropology at Harvard.

This is too bad. I think the four-field approach is really valuable (especially in light of the fact that my four-field training is not particularly strong), as well as being the bedrock of american anthro. I mean, I love postmodernism and interpretive anthropology as much as the next cultural anthropologist, but it makes me sad that we’re alienating each other to the extent where we can’t even remain in the same department.

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   Although I’ve chosen to do my degree at Concordia, where they only offer cultural anthropology, I find this sort of...

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   This is too bad. I think the four-field approach is really valuable (especially in light

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   This makes me really sad. Loyola’s department was fiercely four field when I was there and I think it makes you a much...

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