Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?

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Mary Beth Williams wrote:
>
> 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.........???
>

That's my business.

Fortunately, not everyone is this newsgroup is an "academic"
anthropologist.

Steve Barnard

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