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[edit] Anthropology

Not a good article. Particularly the history is poor, beginning with the history in the US. While US anthro is excellent, precisely a discipline having diversity as its object needs alternative genealogies


Very good article. Meets all Featured Article criteria. --GoOdCoNtEnT 06:27, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Weak Support - per nom - --GoOdCoNtEnT 06:35, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Why are you weakly supporting nominatons? Shouldn't you be giving full support to articles you nominate? — Deckiller 06:46, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
      • I want others to have a stronger deciding role in whether this article should be featured or not. --GoOdCoNtEnT 07:10, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: lead definately needs to be expanded. 216.58.91.187 16:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Please do not place more than one nomination at a time — this makes it difficult to do each article and its objections justice. Zzzzz 16:27, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Object. A few quick observations show this is not a featured article right now. It is nice Jeronimo 21:25, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Lead is too short.
    • Lack of inline citations.
    • Unannotated list of "fields and subfields"
    • Sections dedicated to the USA, France, Britain and "after World War II" indicate poor structure and/or incomplete coverage of the topic.
  • Object. I don't want to repeat Jeronimo's suggests. NCurse work 21:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Speaking as an anthropologist, several of the articles related to this one are quite poorly or partially written: Anthropology, Cultural anthropology, Social anthropology, and History of anthropology. Broadly, as noted by GoOdCoNtEnT, all of these are written from a fairly US-centric viewpoint, ignoring the historical roots and present dialogue among British, French, US, and to some degree other European and Latin American anthropologies. All of these also focus on a particularly critical and sensationalist portrayal of racial/racist elements in 19th-century anthropology to the neglect of much substantive discussion of 20th-century developments or current practice. I would like to propose creation of a WikiAnthro project, but I am a relatively new user and would definitely need help with this. Mccajor 06:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
  • I have now joined WikiProject: Anthropology, but it seems to be a fairly inactive project. Comment on the current, heavily revised version of the article would be helpful. Mccajor 18:53, 18 April 2007 (UTC)