Making a Killing in Anthropology

One of my informants emailed me this magazine cover. I haven’t read the story, but I wager I know what it says already. Though the implication that the anthropologists are “hunting” pygmies (small start-ups) is either chillingly apposite, or totally baffling… I’m offering a “Kiss Me, I’m a Pygmy Hunter” T-shirt to the best “separated at birth” suggestion for this guy…

Christopher Kelty does anthropological and historical research on science and technology, free and open source software, intellectual property and open access, the history of software, and the ethics and politics of nanotechnology. He also teaches classes about all of these things. From 2001 to 2008 he was assistant professor of anthropology at Rice University, in Houston, TX. He know teaches at UCLA and splits his time between the Information Studies department, the Anthropology Department and the Center for Society and Genetics.