/2005/06/02/dont-book-that-ticket/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 /2005/06/02/dont-book-that-ticket/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:47:33 +0000 /?p=68#comment-221 If the discipline is politicized, it is put on the street so to speak. Backlash and irrational reactions come with the street because politics and the common man go hand in hand. Threats over funding and donations, nasty letters, alumni grubmling, editorials, media attacks, etc. all come with this turf. If you take the moral high ground, then you have to defend it, it is as simple as that. If folks want to spend time arguing and defending political morality, then it is less time spent in the field and research library, and it fosters a public image of Anthropologists as political agents.

]]> /2005/06/02/dont-book-that-ticket/comment-page-1/#comment-991 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=68#comment-991 A recently released report from the AAA President’s office to the AAA Labor Relations Commission. (Read my comments over at Savage Minds .) June 1, 2005 To: Labor Relations Commission From: Liz Brumfiel, AAA President RE: 2006 AAA Annual Meeting Location At its spring meeting, May 14-15, 2005, the AAA Executive Board had a lengthy and productive discussion of issues surrounding

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