Pizzini: About public uses of the word anthropology
Abstract
The article surveys “snippets”, gleaned over the last year from Italian newspaper and magazine articles, in which the words “anthropology” and “anthropological”, often loosely used, are to be found. The survey makes no claims to completeness. Such generalized use of terms with a specific meaning seems to have intensified with the simultaneous decline in various fields (publishing, academia and institutions) of the demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines. The article directs an ironic gaze on current problems which our professional community needs to tackle seriously.Anuac is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence 4.0. With the licence CC-BY, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy their contribution. The work must be properly attributed to its author. It should be also mentioned that the work has been first published by the journal Anuac.
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