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.

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Universität Zürich, ZORA
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2025-12-02
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https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-282021
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Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
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Anthropological gossip: On a bad habit in our discipline

Gabriel Scheidecker
Universität Zürich, ZORA
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
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Anthropological gossip: On a bad habit in our discipline

Gabriel Scheidecker
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Abstract

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.

Universität Zürich, ZORA
Openalex Percentile: Top 18%
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
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