Anthropological Gossip: On a Bad Habit in Our Discipline
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.
Authors
- Gabriel Scheidecker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4461-1773)
Institutions
- University of Zurich (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Ethnoscripts
- Published
- 2025-12-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.15460/ethnoscripts.2025.27.1.2467
- Primary Topic
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung