Oct 28, 2026 · 46 min · 8 segments
Today, Heather and Andrew discuss the recent “Vanderbilt Report” which said that anthropology needed to be a bit less activist, a bit more approachable to normal humans, and use a bit less jargon…
Andrew KinkellaHostHeatherHost
Chris WebsterHost
I talked about it on the pseudo-archaeology podcast recently, and I talked about it on my own YouTube channel on King Keller Teaches Archaeology.
And this is the response of the American Anthropological Association to a thing called the Vanderbilt Report.
But we really want to kind of know what's going on and really think about this because this ideology, the way of looking at things really affects us in the long run, actually a lot.
There was a report that came out that is now referred to as the Vanderbilt report.
to say.
Now, you guys, I'm going to sort of summarize something that's there's a lot of twists and turns into it.
That came out in June and it was written by actual college professors and college presidents of places like Vanderbilt, of course, Princeton, this kind of stuff.
Now, what is anthropology the worst at? The report was basically saying, hey, in the social sciences and especially in anthropology, we have gone way, way too far left.
I talked about it on the pseudo-archaeology podcast recently, and I talked about it on my own YouTube channel on King Keller Teaches Archaeology.
And this is the response of the American Anthropological Association to a thing called the Vanderbilt Report.
But we really want to kind of know what's going on and really think about this because this ideology, the way of looking at things really affects us in the long run, actually a lot.
There was a report that came out that is now referred to as the Vanderbilt report.
to say.
Now, you guys, I'm going to sort of summarize something that's there's a lot of twists and turns into it.
That came out in June and it was written by actual college professors and college presidents of places like Vanderbilt, of course, Princeton, this kind of stuff.
Now, what is anthropology the worst at? The report was basically saying, hey, in the social sciences and especially in anthropology, we have gone way, way too far left.
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