Re: Whither anthropology?

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On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, John McCreery wrote:
> A few
> years later when I was a visiting instructor at Berkeley, I noticed how
> economic implosion had turned the department into a fair approximation of
> George Foster's peasant village with a culture controlled by the image of the
> limited good. Factionalism was rife, and conversation seemed to consist largely
> of academic equivalents of treasure tales and witchcraft accusations.
>
> Has anyone had a similar experience?
>
> John McCreery
>
John, I'd suggest you read Melvin Williams' book "An ethnographic
Village" which is a study of precisely this sort of thing.

Mike

Michael Ashkenazi
mashkena@acs.ucalgary.ca

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