Science Forums - Anthropology and Cultural Studies http://hypography.com/forums/ The science of man (including as an object of natural history or as an animal), of the structure and functions of the human body, of the origins and social relationships of human beings and their cultures. en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:44:03 GMT vBulletin 60 http://hypography.com/forums/images/styles/new_facebook/images/misc/rss.jpg Science Forums - Anthropology and Cultural Studies http://hypography.com/forums/ Statues in the Park http://hypography.com/forums/anthropology-cultural-studies/21299-statues-park.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:32:43 GMT Napoleon Chagnon studied the Yanomamo people of the Amazonian rainforest for thirty years or so. ... Napoleon Chagnon studied the Yanomamo people of the Amazonian rainforest for thirty years or so. That’s a lifetime commitment. Although not many people are familiar with his work, his research is, IMO, the crème de la crème of anthropological field work. I feel as though his contribution to society merit’s a statue in the park or something. Statues in the park are more likely to be of Napoleon Boneparte, a vicious, sycophantic warlord. We could’ve done without Boneparte, but for some reason he is glorified and Chagnon is not. While I do not work with marble or bronze, I’d like to commemorate Chagnon here on Hypography in whatever small way I can.

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...and there he is. :)


Another equally eligible candidate for our statuary prize should be Jane Goodall. Much more well-known.

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Plenty of pictures of Jane, but I really wanted one of just her for this, without chimpanzees.

It’s hard to compare the respective contributions of these two scientists - both are invaluable but very different - and this is not my point at all. I’d like to commemorate the kind of scientist that spends decades crouching in a jungle, as opposed to the pen-and-paper theoretician types, who’s slings and arrows come from the urban jungles of modern academia. This is a special kind of scientist. I’ve listed two, but I’m sure there are many more, and it shouldn’t be limited to anthropology.

I feel funny doing this - that a photograph and couple of paragraphs of my broken and uneducated pros is enough to represent these people or their contributions. But I don’t know what else to do - what else to say. I’m only hoping that forum members will be interested enough in this thread to pool their talents and knowledge into an open-ended compilation documenting their lives/deeds - that we may be able, in our own way, to chisel some kind of e-monument here on Hypography.
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