Medical Anthropologists Should Stick to...

Whatever it is that they are supposedly good at. Writing about politike and political organiztaion using analogies based on micro-organisms is really a bad argument. Complexity and all that.

“Human cultures, like cell cultures, are not steady states. They can have split purposes as their expanding & contracting concepts of insiders & outsiders shift, depending on levels of trust, & on... available resources & how many people need them.” https://t.co/BDXyrpw9fp

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) April 13, 2021