American Anthropological Association

Michael J. Winkleman, Ph.D., Masters of Public Health at the University of Arizona, is retired from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, where he served as the Head of Sociocultural Anthropology and the Director of the Ethnographic Field School in Ensenada, Mexico, and Director of the Masters of Public Health in Community Health.

Winkelmann served as president of the Anthropology of Consciousness section of the American Anthropological Association, and was the founding president of its Anthropology of Religion section.

Winkelmann has engaged in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research on shamanism, psychedelics, and the alteration of consciousness for 40 years.

His books on shamanism include Shamans, Priests, and Witches, 1992, and Shamanism, a Bio-Psychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing, in 2010.

Now I can just shovel in a bunch of nonsense.

It's interesting because This is what I'm looking at, and I don't want you to keep moving, but just along that mind, in October 2nd, and I know you're going to talk about this, but the American Anthropology Association came out with this Anthropology Defended, which is a response to this Vanderbilt report.

And they say in there that at its core, so they're explaining what the Vanderbilt, Report says at its core.

Is this the quote? Do it.

Do the quote.

Yeah.

Tell them this is what the AAA is.

This is their boil down of the Vanderbilt report.

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Goldschmidt was a big power player in the field.

He would soon go on to become the head of the American Anthropological Association.

And basically nobody, when doubts began to arise, nobody wants to be the one saying, you got it wrong.

Because nobody, and this is, I'm thinking about this daily or every hour practically at this point, you know, no one likes to admit that they were wrong.

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The Academy, in fact, it seemed almost like anthropology, anthropology itself turned against him, including his graduate teachers.

He was torn to pieces, with members of the American Anthropological Association describing, quote, "An anthropological heart of darkness beyond the imagining of even a Joseph Conrad, though not perhaps a Joseph Mengele." They accused him of everything.

In 2000, journalist Patrick Tierney published Darkness in El Dorado, accusing Chagnon of triggering a measles epidemic through vaccine experimentation, arming rival factions to stage conflicts on film, cooking his data, and behaving as a war criminal, uh, or even a genocidaire, while The New Yorker ran with it and tore him to pieces.

Folks, this looks so much like a cancellation.