Comments on: “Anthropologists! Anthropologists!”

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:51:35 +0000

Gary Larson was at Washington State University in the late 60s / early 70s,

By: RasTinny

RasTinny — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:03:28 +0000

“it suggests that these groups are to some extent aware of the value that portraying yourselves as “uncontacted”, “primitive” people has to academic researchers and voyeurs worldwide..”

Mr/Ms Anthropologist it was Manuel Elizalde who attempted the exploitation. If the Tasaday were a fraud then they did not exists and thus it is not ‘uncontacted ‘primitive’ people that are aware of the value of being ‘uncontacted’. As always it is western idiots with Western models of development that use fraud to exploit people. Don’t blame it on ‘primitive people’ Anthropologist… Fuckry

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:26:41 +0000

I use this cartoon in my anthropology classes to prompt reflection on how our classic conceptions shape both our own thinking and also help inform how others interact with us …Gary Larson used to sit in on anthropology classes at the University of Washington in the 1980s and always came up with wonderful comic re-takes. He was so enjoyed and appreciated that the UW’s Burke Museum of Natural History even mounted an exhibit of his work in the late 1980s.

By: GerRoland

GerRoland — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:48:59 +0000

In a way this reminds me of when MENSA came to Detroit for their national convention in 2010. The Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau won MENSA over and got the convention with this slogan… “Who was the genius who picked Detroit?”

LOL… needless to say the MENSA visitors were surprised and pleased with their choice once they saw what the city offered.

By: WDF3

WDF3 — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:11:48 +0000

Or, you know, it’s just an ironic cartoon :P You people ruin all the fun.

By: jvp_solar

jvp_solar — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:56:59 +0000

Gary Larson rules get over it people.Oh he also has a couple bugs in his namesake.So he outrules everyone else.lol

By: wassaman

wassaman — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:18:35 +0000

I think it is a really nice cartoon that should be pondered upon greatly by participant observers in the field.

By: Devil's Avocado

Devil's Avocado — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:51:07 +0000

@woodfarm, @ziggy zoggy, @aimee, @sinanju:

This cartoon (a favourite of mine, used to be up on the wall in our anthropology dept) – to me – reflects on the suspicion of many of “us” that uncontacted tribes aren’t really all that uncontacted.

But also – and here I agree with ziggy zoggy – it suggests that these groups are to some extent aware of the value that portraying yourselves as “uncontacted”, “primitive” people has to academic researchers and voyeurs worldwide.
It was this suggestion, sinanju, that seems to have driven much of the scepticism around the Tasaday controversy (I did look it up). That and “journalists” bribing community members.

And I don’t really think it’s all that much about gazes at all. I think it’s more about preconceptions, whereas when people talk about gazes anthropologically they’re talking about affecting what you see by the position you see it from.

By: Ziggy Zoggy

Ziggy Zoggy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:58:59 +0000

Aimee,

the cartoon is portrayed from the “natives’” point of view because it is meant to comment on THEIR “gaze”–you’re stupid!

By: Kambiz

Kambiz — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:16:07 +0000

Aimee, language warning.