Re: Assumptions and Contradictions

Ruby Rohrlich (rohrlich@GWIS2.CIRC.GWU.EDU)
Wed, 15 Mar 1995 21:03:30 -0500

Do you think an anthropologist is a soldier in an army, pledged to fight
to the death? What nonsense! Why can't you be reasonable? Ruby Rohrlich

On Sat, 11 Mar 1995, Robert Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Mar 1995, mike salovesh wrote:
>
> > Did you ever
> > know anybody personally who was killed by (choose one) guardias
> > blancas, government assassins, the Mexican army, PRI-oriented Indians
> > or anti-Pri Indians, Ladino ranchers, local caciques and their
> > pistoleros, drunken government officials, or Indians dealing with
> > other Indians accused of witchcraft?
>
> Mike also wrote
>
> > I am an anthropologist. I worked in Chiapas for years, and stopped
> > only when it became too dangerous for me personally to continue.
>
>
> Seems like a direct contradiction by someone with
> so many assumptions.
>