Replacement anxieties: White power speculation and anthropology’s ancestral dramas
Published online on April 18, 2026
Abstract
Critique of Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
Anthropologists disowned their race-science roots one hundred years ago and the field has been a charade since—according to today’s White power activists. Those activists do not spurn anthropology, but they do spurn ancestor worship of Franz Boas, charged ...
Anthropologists disowned their race-science roots one hundred years ago and the field has been a charade since—according to today’s White power activists. Those activists do not spurn anthropology, but they do spurn ancestor worship of Franz Boas, charged ...