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Anthropology. They're a bunch of weirdos and I love them. They lean anarchist politically in my experience
How's the field itself? I hear it's been grappling with itself how much the field was built on top of racist and Eurocentric foundations and so lots of previous research some anthropologists just say aren't valid? And then there's an opposing faction of course and they fight often
https://davidgraeber.org/wp-content/uploads/2015-Radical-aterity-is-just-another-way-of-saying-reality-A-reply-to-Viveiros-de-Castro.pdf oh ho ho, an opportunity to pitch a potentially interesting david graeber essay
The field still has its issues with respectful settler indigenous relations, if such a thing is possible lmao. It's better than it used to be and yeah, a lot of past research has just been thrown out as a result but the anthropologists I have met are really trying to study other cultures without harming them. Learning how to acknowledge and combat your own biases is taught in anth 101 and retaught in every following class.
Varies a lot by program. I enjoyed my classes. Honestly some of my first real intros to Marxist thought (hat tip to my TA Jason Hickel).
Wait what?
Yup!
That's so cool. What was the class on, Marxism?
No, it was several Anthro classes. Him and his roommate were both super cool.