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1. Pauline von Hellermann (pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 16:41:17 JST Pauline von Hellermann

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   #AcademicVenting

   .. discipline talks about the "wonders of anthropology". It really is a wonderful field! Adding here a🧵 on 8 reasons why the world needs #Anthropology. But really what I should have said: the world needs non-elite anthropologists and non-elite institutions teaching anthropology. It can't just be for the privileged at Oxbridge; it needs to be what we do at Goldsmiths - by and for everyone, especially those normally marginalised.

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   • Pauline von Hellermann (pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 16:41:18 JST Pauline von Hellermann

     #AcademicVenting

     "With low or no fees, undergraduates felt freer to pursue their own dreams of being taught by the kinds of leading scholars and world-renowned artists found in an institution like my own. They could afford to take the time to find their own feet, to chop and change courses and module options. Many would tell me they had discovered for the first time the wonders of anthropology, not having had any idea of the field previously."

     So lovely that a colleague from a different