Indiana Jones denied tenure

Read the “departmental memo”:http://mcsweeneys.net/2006/10/10bryan.html over at McSweeny’s. This comes via 3 Quarks Daily, which has their own “excellent analysis”:http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2006/11/indiana_jones_a.html of Indy’s depressingly imperialist epistemological practice — something I’ve “blogged about before”:http://savageminds.org/2005/06/21/the-indiana-jones-thing/.

Alex Golub is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He studies mining and petroleum development in Papua New Guinea, as well as American culture in to the online game World of Warcraft. You can contact him at rex@savageminds.org