David is a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Since 2017, he has taught in the role of “Visiting Associate Professor” of anthropology at Biola University (which is a few miles from Disneyland in Southern California). His Twitter handle is @DavidShaneLowry.
An Obituary for Alfred Kroeber (or…Can American Indians Speak?)
Image: The title “Kroeber Hall” being removed at the University of California-Berkeley on January 26, 2021. (Photo Credit: Irene Yi) In 2017, the theme of the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association was “Anthropology Matters”. I didn’t hear folks criticize the theme too much, but I wondered who had chosen it in the age of “Black Lives Matters” to make a point about the value and substance of anthropology. It was a bit … tacky … mostly because it {+}