Honestly, since "the reflexive turn" in anthropology in the past few decades, anthropology-as-science is dying. And the critical cultural theorists are cheerfully dancing on its grave. And I'm almost glad because they're so reactionary and stupid, even though I'm much closer to the scientists than the critical scholars.

Meh. I'm a media theorist who does quantitative research, and this past semester I've taken a course in a cultural studies department to broaden my theoretical knowledge, and it's agonizing to be sneered at so consistently by fellow grad students who have been suckled on the idea that science can't possibly be self-aware enough or anti-colonialist enough not to just be there to be critiqued.