Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?

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Eric Brunner wrote:
>
> Stephen Barnard (steve@megafauna.com) wrote:
> : Lars Eighner wrote:
> ...
> : > I've been meaning to ask: is "sociobiology" the polite word?
> : > Or do they prefer "Social Darwinism"?
> ...
> : Sociobiology is an eminently polite word. Social Darwinism is something
> : quite different.
>
> Perhaps somewhere, but not in academic anthropology (American), as a test,
> one can simply ask selectionists if they are comfortable with the notion
> that the two terms are interchangable (selectionism and sociobiolgy).
>

"Academic" anthropology is so inbred and so mired in obsolete political jargon
that no one should trust anything that comes out it it.

Steve Barnard

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