Darkness in Anthropology: A Conversation with Napoleon Chagnon (10.1007/s12129-013-9378-z)
Carol Iannone, Academic Questions
Cultural anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has become a target for the outrage and discontent of the Marxist and postmodernist anthropological world, largely because his three decades of research among the Yanomamö tribe in the Amazon lend support to a biologically-based view of human nature—belying the utopian views of culture and humanity favored by the academic Left. Chagnon offers his thoughts on his work, his colleagues, his opponents, and his discipline to AQ editor-at-large Carol Iannone.
English Compositionism as Fraud and Failure (10.1007/s12129-013-9368-1)
Jeffrey Zorn, Santa Clara University
Jeffrey Zorn explains the postmodern decay and names names in this lively article that outlines the devolution from teaching English composition into “compositionism” and maps a way back to sanity and good grammar.
Student Writing: Strategies to
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