September 10, 2011 ? 8:03 am
A nutshell analysis of disciplinary identity.
- Anthropology and Sociology: both study human societies. Sociology is cleaner and you work in an AC room. Anthropology is dirty and gives you diarrhea. Lately sociologists are going wild with qualitative methods; and anthropologists have always stolen insights from bearded sociologists such as Marx, Weber, and Durkheim.
- Anthropology and History: ?the former is synchronic and the latter is diachronic. The so-called ?ethnographic present? is a theoretical fiction and scares historians. Oral accounts, eating cheese & worms, subaltern narratives are anthropological contributions to History.
- Anthropology and Psychology:?both disciplines nose into people?s private lives. Whereas psychologists have to keep silence, anthropologists can stalk and gossip (within a strict academic ethics, of course) about their subjects.
- Anthropology and Social Psychology: Social psychologists explain social behavior, anthropologist make fun of it.
- Anthropology and Social Work: Social workers try to solve peoples? problems; anthropologists try to convince people they got problems. Problematize is our business.
- Anthropology, Development Studies, and Political Science: ?Anthropologists are skeptical, Development Studies dudes are naive, and political scientists are cynical?about changing the world for better. ?We are grateful to Development Studies folks for using our findings and ignoring our pessimism. ?They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.? Mark Twain
- Anthropology and?Archaeology: ?Anthropology collects trash, er, material culture to explain present societies. Archaeologists dig the backyard for material culture to explain past societies and to find treasure?chests.
- Anthropology and Economics: ?anthropologists when do something wrong damn whole villages or tribes. Economists when do something wrong damn whole countries and the world.
- Anthropology, Primatology, and Paleontology: ?Human paleontologists guess about early hominids lives, Primatologists scrutinize every mammal with frontal eyes and five-fingers, anthropologists are busy with?Macaco sapiens,?a.k.a.?Homos complicatus. ?All are geeks about The Planet of the Apes franchise.
- Anthropology and Literary Studies:? Anthropologists read ethnographic data as a text; Literature guys read texts as a text.
- Anthropology and Linguistics: Linguists describe and analyze languages, of which many are agrapha. Anthropologists tell?anecdotes?about agrapha languages, in those languages.
- Anthropology and Folklore Studies: ?Folklorists describe funny costumes, anthropologists wear ridiculous costumes.
- Anthropology and Mythology Studies: ?anthropologists believe in every?bravado?of the village liar. Mythologists cannot be fooled so easy.
- Anthropology and Business Administrators: ?Corporate anthropologists do the dirty job in organizational and consumer studies. Business people sign the corporate anthropologist paychecks.
- Anthropology and Ergonomics: ?anthropologists are designers that failed at drawing class in the kindergarten and are prone to hear people complain about products. Ergonomists are the kids that learned to draw and can fix things.
- Anthropology and Philosophy:?Anthropological philosophers wonder about humanity, anthropologists spoil the philosopher?s fun pointing out obscure exceptions to human universality.
- Anthropology and Religious Studies: A scientist of religion can deal with religion without having to dance, drink?nauseous liquids, and being exorcised.
- Anthropology and?Ecology: Ecologists explain?inter-being?relationships, anthropologist complicate that relationship.
- Anthropology and Gender Studies: Gendered scholars are usually engaged in gender issues, anthropologists are too lazy for that.
- Anthropology and Cultural Studies: ?Cultural Studies students read Frankfurkians, Gramsci, graphic novels, and love heated debates. Anthropologists love heated debates first, and don?t have time to afford reading as they wish because are too busy?deciphering?their own fieldwork scribbles.
- Anthropology and Postmodern Thought: Postmodern thinkers sip coffee and discuss paradoxes in Paris. Anthropologists are happy when catching internet signal in?Jijoca de Jericoacoara.
- Anthropology and Forensics: Forensics professionals got a better stomach.
- Anthropology and Law: a legal scholar can rip you off but save you from troubles in court. A legal anthropologist won?t help you in court, but will visit you often in prison.
- Anthropology and Cinema producers: ?movie makers dreams about winning Oscars, visual anthropologists dreams about winning grants.
- Anthropology and Tourists:?Tourists tip better, anthropologists bargain a discount.
- Anthropology and Bartending: ?both mix stuff, are high socially skilled professionals, and observe people. Bartenders get good tips at the end of night, anthropologists don?t.
- Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Volkskunde: ?All depends if your teacher is British, American, French, or German. And if you like ALPACA or not.
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Disclaimer:??paraphrasing or?bluntly?misquoting Karl Popper,?all synthesis are dumb because overlooks complexity.
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