The CHE reporter Stephanie Lee does a really good job trying to get Professor Rouse to actually answer questions, but Professor Rouse’s responses mostly serve to confirm the doubts expressed about her field in the Boghossian Report. It’s a shame, because I am a huge fan of a lot of work done in anthropology. One of my most memorable undergraduate courses was an introduction to anthropology course with James Fernandez (who subsequently moved to Chicago)–in which we read Napoleon Chagnon and Marvin Harris, among others–and I also got a lot from Lawrence Rosen’s undergraduate “Anthropology of Law” course. It’s a shame the field has fallen on hard times.