From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences, by Arpad Szakolczai and Bjørn Thomassen

Simon Underdown on a call for the discipline to reclaim its maverick heritage to rejuvenate itself and tackle dynamic real-world problems

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#1 Submitted by Nick Thorpe on March 4, 2019 - 6:10pm
It isn't clear to me why Philippe Bourgois, Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, doesn't count as an anthropologist in this account of Matthew Reisz’s piece.

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