Comments on: Chagnon (Again) https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/12/03/chagnon-again/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:06:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Jonathan Dresner https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/12/03/chagnon-again/comment-page-1/#comment-7003 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:06:50 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1076#comment-7003 And if you realize that it’s more interesting to examine your own reactions to these externalized dichotomies, you’ve reached the 90s.

]]> By: PQuincy https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/12/03/chagnon-again/comment-page-1/#comment-7002 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:08:03 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1076#comment-7002 Ah, but if you simply juxtapose the views:

Sexually liberated and gender-equitable VS. Male-dominated and violent
Intrinsically cooperative VS. selfish and possessive,

And then link the juxtapositions, you’ve made it all the way from Chagnon to Levi-Strauss!

And then if you wonder about the meaning of “equitable” in cultural context, you’re up to Geertz.

Then, admit that we have no idea what those folks think or why they do what they do, and you’re up to the 1980s…

]]> By: Jonathan Dresner https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/12/03/chagnon-again/comment-page-1/#comment-7000 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:44:03 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1076#comment-7000 I’m a little surprised. Anthropology was the first social science to adopt poststructural points about the relationship between perspective and presentation and truth, about the structured nature of social relations: I’d expect a much more nuanced discussion.

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