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By examining these orientations at different points, the authors argue for an anthropology that takes a fuller account of the teleologies of action.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2019,"language":"en","subjects":["Sociology"],"doi":"10.1017/9781108378277","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/58490ebddd3b1c53601c687b3d894acefe3743fe","is_open_access":true,"citations":265,"published_at":"","score":70.95},{"id":"ss_a56e08ea2dc60190819408e59fc6b0773bb15363","title":"The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2019","authors":[{"name":"R. Jobson"}],"abstract":"This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scholarly inquiry and as existential threats to the reproduction of the discipline. 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This view conflicts with anthropological accounts that emphasize culture as dynamic, historically situated, and enacted in practice. To analyze this gap, we introduce a four-part framework that categorizes how benchmarks frame culture, such as knowledge, preference, performance, or bias. Using this lens, we qualitatively examine 20 cultural benchmarks and identify six recurring methodological issues, including treating countries as cultures, overlooking within-culture diversity, and relying on oversimplified survey formats. Drawing on established anthropological methods, we propose concrete improvements: incorporating real-world narratives and scenarios, involving cultural communities in design and validation, and evaluating models in context rather than isolation. 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