Re: 'Native' anthropology

Erik A Mueggler (mueggler@JHUNIX.HCF.JHU.EDU)
Sun, 16 Jan 1994 15:35:02 -0500

On Sat, 15 Jan 1994, Cecilia Maria B Sardenberg wrote:
> As to your previous message (reply), all I
> have to say is this: it makes a world of difference being a 'native'
> anthropologist and somebody who is there just to get data to write a
> dissertation to get a job to get tenure , etc...

Does it? What kind of difference? And just what is a 'native'
anthropologist? Are you one? If so, what makes you able to claim that
priviledge? Finally, didn't you write, or aren't you writing, a
dissertation? And isn't that to get a job or tenure?

Erik Mueggler