anthropology

Merril, the Dr. Frankenstein of “anthropology,” has unleashed a digital creature that doesn’t seem all that intimidating when making sarcastic quips on the computer screen.

I feel the same way about the students at Columbia, where the elder Mamdani teachers government and anthropology.

In anthropology, involution is used to describe a kind of change without progress.

I worked a smattering of odd jobs—managing the front desk at the anthropology department and writing stories for the student newspaper—but the money I made wasn’t much.

Mr. Mamdani, a professor of government and anthropology at Columbia University, is himself a Ugandan Asian, the term used to describe people from British India who had settled in the British protectorate of Uganda.