there are those jerks who think only born anthropologists can be anthropologists. but what about born again anthropologists? i mean art is material culture isn't it, so why is it such a fucking foreign concept to people? and aren't foreign concepts what's happening? isn't that what we're all in to? god forbid you talk about something made after 1902... (that doesn't fit into the 'non-linear' linear narrative) the inalienability of objects isn't just about what we are constantly shoving in tiny boxes with tiny labels with tiny ideas circulating all over the place. (or are they big ugly ideas?)
we need to position ourselves in-between things. how else are we going to get anywhere? if we are constantly redrawing the disciplinary lines we aren't going to get anywhere and your going to continually have artists saying anthropologists are all assholes and all anthropologists saying artists are postmodern crazies. but you know i guess that's what university is about right? pay money to learn to fit in this tiny box that doesn't teach you anything about participating in real life and teaches you to unlearn the fact that theory doesn't really make a fucking difference.
too bad theory is so awesome.
anyways, anthropologists aren't all assholes...
