Golublog: An Anthropology Blog

I think when I added the search box to the left hand column of the log I broke the comments. Sorry for that — especially when the ’20 minute acoustic set’ post and the ‘race’ post have been popular enough that people have been emailing me personally with suggestions, etc. It’ll be fixed soon. For [...]

This week my intro anthro class is studying race. Explaining why ‘race’ and folk heredity are bad science but omnipresent cultural constructs is something that every anthropology professor has to do over and over and over again. I sometimes find the anthropological knee-jerk against race unsatisfying because it often takes the form of a a [...]