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Dale DeBakcsy

Dec 24, 2023

Hortense Powdermaker and the Anthropology of Modern Life

When you picture an anthropologist, the first thing that comes to mind is probably a person in khakis sitting at the edge of a tribal...

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Dale DeBakcsy

Jun 5, 2023

How a Culture is Born: The Groundbreaking Anthropology of Ruth Benedict.

Cultures are strange creatures. What you can do and say, who you can love and when, who you may kill and how, are all subject to the...

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Dale DeBakcsy

May 4, 2023

Margaret Mead and the Anthropology of Cultural Relativism.

There is hardly a name in science more encrusted with bad faith generalizations and well-meaning but ahistorical hagiography than that of...

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