Comments on: Janice Harper and the Public Intellectual http://savageminds.org/2009/08/28/janice-harper-and-the-public-intellectual/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MTBradley http://savageminds.org/2009/08/28/janice-harper-and-the-public-intellectual/comment-page-1/#comment-616409 MTBradley Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:22:43 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2009/08/28/janice-harper-and-the-public-intellectual/#comment-616409 bq. Why Janice Harper? Largely, I think, because she is a woman who happened to believe in real gender equality in an especially backward university setting. I am more than a little surprised that a professional anthropologist would find nothing problematic about using phrases like “especially backward” when referring to goings-on in Southern Appalachia. bq. Why Janice Harper? Largely, I think, because she is a woman who happened to believe in real gender equality in an especially backward university setting.

I am more than a little surprised that a professional anthropologist would find nothing problematic about using phrases like “especially backward” when referring to goings-on in Southern Appalachia.

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