tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post6008249581937522446..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Social MalariaAnne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-10792967016979563682012-10-21T17:26:58.304-04:002012-10-21T17:26:58.304-04:00Thank you all for the compliments and for the chan...Thank you all for the compliments and for the chance to contribute to the blog. <br />And in my opinion, Livingstone was an excellent model for anthropology to follow. Many people talk about interdisciplinary work but few actually do it. Even worse, it seems as if anthropological research that works across anthropological subfields occurs even less. I think that is a shame... <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05068601494828074316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-4269236261041806572012-10-21T10:41:06.768-04:002012-10-21T10:41:06.768-04:00And there's more about Frank. He did not just...And there's more about Frank. He did not just train proteges who were clones--graduate students taken on board to do his research for him partitioned into bits so he could pad his CV with papers. <br /><br />I may be forgetting somebody, but I can't think of any of his students who did malaria work. He stimulated us each to do our own thing. Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-88218069520926880082012-10-21T10:34:56.456-04:002012-10-21T10:34:56.456-04:00For those MT readers who don't know who Frank ...For those MT readers who don't know who Frank was (besides being my PhD advisor at Michigan!), he was one of the most truly interdisciplinary anthropologists in our history.<br /><br />His 1958 paper in the American Anthropologist, now largely forgotten, combined linguistics, culture, genetics, epidemiology, evolution, and history in a single analysis that to at least a considerable extent accounted for the diversity and high frequency of human genes conferring resistance to malaria.<br /><br />He was inspirational to study under, always thinking, never a prisoner of the grant or publishing rat-race system, and while technically sophisticated, not a narrow technocrat.<br /><br />His work has stood up well under more recent studies of malaria-associated genetic variation in Africa.<br /><br />Unfortunately, but typical, he was playing hockey into his dotage, and he never did anything at half-speed. As I understood it, he was checked quite hard, and decked onto the ice. And he never really recovered.<br /><br />But he would have no regrets probably. He always resented his alma mater, Harvard, for saying he was too small to play on their hockey team.<br /><br />Frank was one of the great ones in anthropology's hey-day.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-7213903844146702062012-10-21T09:44:22.300-04:002012-10-21T09:44:22.300-04:00Somewhere, Frank Livingstone is smiling.
Very nic...Somewhere, Frank Livingstone is smiling.<br /><br />Very nice contribution to MT.<br />txBillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06948078362926035217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-52966090998298143162012-10-19T09:00:45.533-04:002012-10-19T09:00:45.533-04:00This is a terrifically thoughtful contribution, Da...This is a terrifically thoughtful contribution, Dan! It shows that even in something where causation should be strong and clear-cut, that we can't ignore either biology or environment (in this case, including culture) in understanding, much less manipulating, the phenomenon.<br /><br />This makes it a very fine topic for knowledgably anthropological study, as you are doing.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.com