Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.93.960621143931.17516D-100000@ucsub.Colorado.EDU> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 14:40:03 -0600 From: Robert Johnson <mailto:johnsorl@COLORADO.EDU> Subject: New Directions in Anthropology To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Like the thesis of Wittenberg,
nail these to the doors...
ANTHROPOLOGY CAN NO LONGER BE DEFINED BY RACIST AND SEXIST
INSTITUTIONS, NOR THOSE INSTITUTIONS WHICH PARTICIPATE IN
THE PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL GENOCIDE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES.
ANTHROPOLOGY MUST AID THOSE WHO RISE AGAINST THEIR PHYSICAL
AND CULTURAL GENOCIDE.
ANTHROPOLOGY MUST CEASE TO WHORE ITSELF TO THOSE WHO COMMIT
SYSTEMATIC MURDER AGAINST INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, OR APPEASE
THOSE WHO LOOT AND SELL THEIR PEOPLES TO "DEVELOPMENT."
ANTHROPOLOGY MUST CEASE TO PROVIDE "POLITICALLY CORRECT"
FACADES FOR CORPORATE LOOTING, ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION,
AND MURDER.
ANTHROPOLOGY MUST CEASE ITS BLINDNESS AND OBJECTIFICATION
OF POVERTY, TRANSPORTATION OF PEOPLES, AND CULTURAL DESTRUCTION.
ANTHROPOLOGY MUST LIBERATE ITSELF FROM THOSE WHO WOULD SELL IT
TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, LICENSE ITS MEMBERS LIKE AN "APPROVED" AND
ACQUIESCENT MOB, AND THOSE WHO SEEK TO SILENCE ITS VOICES OF
REVOLT.
COYOTE