Comments on: Obama’s anthropology connection

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:41:30 +0000

Here is the offical word from UH about learning more about Obama’s UH connection:

“All questions should be addressed directly to Jan Heu, Director of Admissions, at 956-7408. They will only be giving out limited information already available to the public because of numerous privacy issues.”

By: Timelf

Timelf — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:17:30 +0000

It is rumored that Bush the Lesser took an anthropology class with Margaret Mead while at Yale (she apparently agreed to come up from NYC to teach one class). He no doubt worked hard for his gentlemen’s C. Nevertheless, it stretches the imagination to think that Bush is hip to Margaret Mead.

By: Hal

Hal — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:44:40 +0000

Fascinating. Does anyone know if Obama ever took any anthropology classes in college?

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:18:33 +0000

Valter: No.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:58:36 +0000

Obama’s (first!) autobiography _Dreams from my Father_ discusses his youth in Hawaii and abroad in detail. He and his mother in fact spent several years in Indonesia – I don’t know if he went into ‘the field’ with her as such, but it was clearly a formative experience for him.

By: Valter

Valter — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:03:29 +0000

Is Obama’s mother related to Katherine Dunham “the dancing anthropologist”?

By: James Crippen

James Crippen — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:44:13 +0000

I was wondering about that, but I was too lazy to do the background checking myself. I figured that one of his parents had to have been a UH grad or prof of some flavor. I wonder, did she ever take him along on field trips?

Does Prof. Dewey still teach kinship? I need a course in kinship pretty badly, and since Prof. Young-Leslie left I am unsure who to take it from.