But that’s wrong. The divisions between cultural anthropology and physical anthropology aren’t very cut and dry. They are also not consistent. Even with your clarification, I see little correlation between the rift at Stanford and the rift between that Kennewick caused to warrant being addressed in the same article. They are two separate issues and need not be lumped in one big why cultural anthropology doesn’t interface with physical anthropology.

Reducing academic and intellectual differences in such summary pieces doesn’t help ‘bring it all together’. Such a method also does not dutifully inform people of what’s really going on behind the scenes. People read these sorts of pieces and figure that anthropology is this horribly dysfunctional discipline that can neither work cooperatively in the field nor in the academic sphere. And that’s the real troublesome part of a piece like this, it misleads people.