Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?

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In <323777CA.3055@megafauna.com> Stephen Barnard <steve@megafauna.com>
writes:
>
>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.

And so, you are wasting your time on this newsgroup because.........???

MB Williams (inbred and obsolete)
Dept. of Anthro., UMass-Amherst

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