Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Is anthropology so overrun with campus politicians that they can't find anyone who simply does research? Anti-Racist blog has a report on Columbia's newest import: New Professor, Same Old Anti-Israel Agenda at the Columbia Anthropology Department
Can you imagine how extremely difficult it must have been to find an archaeologist working in Israel who digs in such a way that it is inconceivable that he should happen upon an artifact with any Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or even Babylonian or Assyrian connections?
The Natufians are fascinating, no doubt, but most people would see little relationship between Paleolithic artifacts and contemporary politics. Never fear. The Columbia Anthropology Department has hired a scholar of the Paleolithic who manages to use his Natufian expertise to make scholarly statements on Israel and gay identity politics.
Among Professor Boyd’s specialties are "queer theory" and "cultural politics in Israel and Palestine."...
Well, I guess just being an expert in a 13,000 year old dead culture doesn't exactly make you a must-invite to the local cocktail circuit.
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