A 2026 commission declared anthropology the single worst case of scholarly deterioration in the humanities. This essay applies basic ethnographic principles to that verdict. In sixty-two years of fieldwork, from Arembepe in Brazil to Madagascar, I have learned that no single consultant speaks for an entire community. No single Lorax speaks for the trees. The same is true of academic disciplines. Before accepting the report’s portrait of anthropology, we should ask who was consulted, and who was not.
Substack, anthropology, Boghossian report, academic freedom, ethnography, Joseph Henrich, humanities scholarship
Submitted July 9, 2026 at 03:07PM by cpkottak101 https://ift.tt/7cRBZC1
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