Theory is the New Black!

This is the blog for Wake Forest University's Anthropological Theory class for Spring 2014. Get ready for challenging, probing, insightful sociocultural critiques to challenge everything you know about culture and being human!

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Conflict as a Path Towards Unity

Max Gluckman’s ethnographic research on the Zulu peoples of southeast Africa focused on what he called “rituals of rebellion....

Friday, February 7, 2014

The Other Female Anthropologist.

The other female Anthropologist. While Margaret Mead was doing her ethnographies in Samoa and elsewhere, her friend and colleague, anoth...

Critique of Margaret Mead's "Coming of Age in Samoa"

Margaret Mead began her fieldwork in Samoa under the instruction of Franz Boas. The goal was to demonstrate that culture is relative, rath...

Insights from the Application of Darwinian and Boasian Theory to the Concept of Race

Race seemed to be the hot topic of today, having been discussed in my bio anthro course, various conversations with my friends, and of cour...

Thursday, February 6, 2014

If Boas had been with me at this lecture last night…

...he would have had a lot of material to critique, as do I. As an Anthropology major, I had not been into the bottom realms of...

Durkheim and the Dreaded Lunchroom

You are 12 years old again walking through the halls of your middle school. It is close to noon and you know the least favorite part of you...

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