tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post7329147681967965428..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: What went wrong with anthropology of family structures?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53465331370977998452007-10-28T23:08:00.000-07:002007-10-28T23:08:00.000-07:00Heinlein also read Historical Particularist (and S...Heinlein also read Historical Particularist (and Structural Functionalist) anth works on kinship for _Farnham's Freehold_, in which a small 1950s white family from Colorado is catapulted into a future with a black majority population coupled with white servitude. I'm guessing he was just as fascinated by the civil rights movement of the day as anyone; he certainly wasn't a racist. The work (admittedly among his lesser efforts) failed the civil rights movement by not making the dark races more noble than whites. Civil rights leaders fail to notice the irony in crying for equality while holding out for positions of unassailable superiority, at least for the individual leader.<BR/><BR/>Heinlein had his future adopt the African practice of inheritance through the nephew, not understanding (or at least not mentioning) the reason such a custom came into existance; African men don't know which children are their descendants. The children of their wives may not carry the husband's genetic material. The only guarantee of supporting one's genetic lineage is through one's sister's children, which is only a 1/4 investment as opposed to a 1/2 investment if you <B>believe</B> your wife's children are yours.<BR/><BR/>It was still a better book than _It Takes A Village_. Hillary never learned the reason either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22876335488801382922007-10-28T03:29:00.000-07:002007-10-28T03:29:00.000-07:00"What went wrong with anthropology of family struc...<B>"What went wrong with anthropology of family structures?"</B><BR/><BR/>Cultural Marxism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82152922848913856352007-10-25T19:20:00.000-07:002007-10-25T19:20:00.000-07:00Agree totally with your post, but there is one mor...Agree totally with your post, but there is one more related issue. Progressives these days really don't want to hear anything positive about the traditional married husband-and-wife-and-their-biological-children type of family. By extension, they don't want to hear anything else about family.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41751428944252977822007-10-25T17:53:00.000-07:002007-10-25T17:53:00.000-07:00Here are two other important areas, this time from...Here are two other important areas, this time from evolutionary psychology/sociobiology. Richard Dawkins wrote about them, then dropped them: the extended phenotype and the green beard effect. These have profound effects in humans, but if you think studying race and IQ offends people, try applying these two theories to humans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90047883955606804202007-10-25T16:49:00.000-07:002007-10-25T16:49:00.000-07:00Anthropology used to be an exciting discpline. As ...Anthropology used to be an exciting discpline. As Steve has written, Carleton Coon was frickin' Indiana Jones. It was something an adventurous boy could get excited about. It's so PC now, it even puts square-dancing Puerto Rican hermaphrodites to sleep.Ron Guhnamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56525031171882932092007-10-25T14:12:00.000-07:002007-10-25T14:12:00.000-07:00The flip side of this is that there tend to be gen...<I>The flip side of this is that there tend to be general patterns in family structure that follow regional and racial structures, suggesting that within the basic human nature, some variation has evolved.</I><BR/><BR/>Humans can also overcome their nature through socialization to some extent. Anthropologists have confused the ability to overcome human nature with the notion that there really is no human nature. The truth is that the stronger the natural impulse the more extensive and elaborate social prescriptions have to be in order to overcome them and the more likely one is to find deviants to those norms.<BR/><BR/>Norms that defy human nature are also not likely to be retained in places where they don't serve a purpose. For example, you won't find polyandry acceptable in many cultures where there isn't a chronic shortage of women.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31287196961725858292007-10-25T11:02:00.000-07:002007-10-25T11:02:00.000-07:00Boasian anthropology is a Jewish psywar operation....Boasian anthropology is a Jewish psywar operation. Prof. Watson is the latest victim of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55682039305734702872007-10-25T10:52:00.000-07:002007-10-25T10:52:00.000-07:00There is a nice parallel in this description of fa...There is a nice parallel in this description of family structures (of the enormous number of possible structures, why do we converge on a fairly small subset) and the way people argue for a biological basis for the structure of human language.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com