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Stinky Journalism has launched the latest in it’s still-ongoing criticisms of Jared Diamond’s Vengeance piece in The New Yorker. While we haven’t covered all of the SJ columns on this blog, I do think it’s important to direct people’s attention to this one. Rebutting Jared Diamond’s Savage Portrait: What Tribal Societies Can Tell Us About [...]

In an unfortunately-forgotten bit of 70s academic bloodsport, Marvin Harris and Marshall Sahlins battled it out in the pages of the New York Review of Books over the origin Aztec cannibalism: was it, as Harris argued, something Aztecs were driven to as a result of a protein deficiency? No, Sahlins answered, but even if it [...]

I feel like I hear a lot these days about anthropology’s need to be more engaged, more accessible, more readable and more relevant. There are obviously many different motives behind these concerns, from seeking attention to raising the prestige of the discipline to creating a public anthropology to being true to the concerns and needs [...]

Count Me In: Well it’s that time again. New decade, new census, new problems in counting racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Niraj Warikoo at The Detroit Free Press wrote about Middle Eastern Americans who fear that the elimination of the the ancestry section of the census will render them as invisible since [...]

First, an apology — in the past two weeks I’ve tried to finish an edited volume, a full-length monograph, finals for my classes, and two book reviews (among other things) so I have not had the time to delve into the comments on the posts related to Jared Diamond. Luckily it looks like the community [...]

The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond and The New Yorker series: Art Science Research Laboratory’s StinkyJournalism.org and SavageMinds.org is simultaneously cross-publishing on both web sites, a series of essays on the controversy surrounding Jared Diamond’s New Yorker article, “Annals of Anthropology: Vengeance is Ours.” The essay series titled,The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond [...]

The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond and The New Yorker Series “Art Science Research Laboratory’s StinkyJournalism.org”:http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-153.php and SavageMinds.org are simultaneously cross-publishing on both web sites, a series of essays on the controversy surrounding Jared Diamond’s New Yorker article, ‘Annals of Anthropology: Vengeance is Ours.’ The essay series titled, The Pig in a Garden: Jared [...]

At this point, the main lines of debate regarding the Daniel Wemp affair are becoming clear, and while the ratio of heat to light is not exactly what I would hoped it would be, some interesting arguments have come up. First, and not so interesting, are questions about whether or not Rhonda Shearer, Jared Diamond, [...]

The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond and The New Yorker series: StinkyJournalism.org and SavageMinds.org are simultaneously cross-publishing on both web sites, a series of essays on the controversy surrounding Jared Diamond’s New Yorker article, “Annals of Anthropology: Vengeance is Ours.” The essay series titled,The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond and The New Yorker, [...]

Hello everyone — this is just a quick message to announce that Savage Minds will be working with Stinky Journalism, the site that first broke the Jared Diamond/Daniel Wemp story, to produce a series of essays on the affair. You’ll see more to come (including our first installment) over the next couple of weeks. I [...]

I was recently interviewed by a journalist working on a piece on The Daniel Wemp affair for an article in Science that will appear in the next couple of weeks, apparently, and that interview got me thinking about the ‘Is Jared Diamond An Anthropologist’ issue. This topic has come up on the blog from time [...]

This got mentioned in Rhonda Shearer’s comments on Rex’s post, but I felt it warranted its own post: Mako John Kuwimb, a lecturer in law and a PhD candidate at Australia’s James Cook University, who is one of the people responsible for the lawsuit against The New Yorker and Jared Diamond, wrote a long letter [...]

Rhonda Shearer, a cofounder of the Arts Science Research Lab and widow of Stephen Jay Gould recently released a long report on ASRL’s website “Stinky Journalism.org”:http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/aboutus.php entitled “Jared Diamond’s Factual Collapse: New Yorker Mag’s Papua New Guinea Revenge Tale Untrue… Tribal Members Angry, Want Justice”:http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-149.php. I have more than a passing interest in this case [...]

Peer Review Revealed: Inside Higher Ed discussed Michèle Lamont’s new book How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgement. In the research for the book, Lamont sat in on multiple peer review panels and interviewed people making decisions. Her findings: that reviewers reward proposals that reminds them of their latest weekend vacation, dislike [...]

The latest number of Reviews in Anthropology has a long review article by “Joseph Tainter”:http://www.cnr.usu.edu/envs/htm/directory-plugin/memberID=837 entitled “Collapse, Sustainability, and the Environment: How Authors Choose to Fail or Succeed”:http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a905053520~db=all~order=page. I am not an expert on anthropogenic climate change by any means, but I am someone who gets asked about Jared Diamond all the time, so I [...]