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Anthropological Gossip: On a Bad Habit in Our Discipline

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Anthropological gossip, that is, writing mainly for an anthropological audience while criticising other fields, undermines the discipline’s relevance within academia and beyond. To realise the discipline’s critical potential, this piece argues, anthropologists must speak more actively across disciplines.

Source: Ethnoscripts

DOI: 10.15460/ethnoscripts.2025.27.1.2467

Author: Gabriel Scheidecker

Institution: University of Zurich

Language: English

Topic: Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: National Science Foundation, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

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