📚 Education Jul 27, 2026 · Frederick Hess

Anthropology Jumps the Shark

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Anthropology Jumps the Shark
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Seemed like a good idea at the time.






Earlier this summer, 10 accomplished scholars released their controversial “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences.” They had been tapped by the reform-minded presidents of Vanderbilt and Wash U to evaluate the disciplines in question and concluded they had undergone “a deterioration in scholarly standards fueled by the substitution of political criteria for properly scholarly criteria.”
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