CarwilBJ's Twitter Archive

…in reply to @culanth
@culanth US graduate training encourages a global division of labor that where US cultural anthropologists specialize in high theory and Global South social scientists do more empirical work. (1/)
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 5 Favorites 2018 Jun 13 Mood +2 🙂

…in reply to @CarwilBJ
@culanth If you do 6 to 24 months of fieldwork somewhere, but don't read the local social science literature on your topic, you probably haven't developed a deep understanding of your fieldsite or the key questions people near it care about. (2/)
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 6 Favorites 2018 Jun 13 Mood +2 🙂

…in reply to @CarwilBJ
@culanth Meanwhile, people in Global South institutions are often hitching compelling research questions to irrelevant theoretical frames just to get US/Euro journals to publish them. (3/3)
On twitter.com ❤️ 1 Favorite 2018 Jun 13 Mood 0