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Originally Posted by roachboy
from here it'd be interesting to pose the problem of race as an ideology all over again, and link it to the notion of culture as a discrete, self-referential social space that interacts with the "outside" only tangentially and at the risk of contamination. the above gives a good material base for it. if you put the variables together, conventional wisdom begins to come undone.
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A noble thought, rb, but I think the problem around here (on all three of the race threads) is that very few people are willing to see conventional wisdom come undone, and in fact WILL NOT see it, no matter what. It happens all the time in our Anthro 101 undergrad classes, unfortunately... people do not like to see their dreamworks come undone (see
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches for a readable treatment by Marvin Harris).