In her new book"On the Warpath," Dr. Elizabeth Weiss -- who believes Native American remains used for anthropological research should not be repatriated -- dives into the contentious landscape of modern academia.Dr. Elizabeth Weiss is concerned about the direction academia is heading. And she’s not afraid to say it out loud.
In 2019, Weiss was awarded San Jose State’s College of Social Sciences’ Austen D. Warburton Award of Merit for excellence in scholarship. But a year later, the academic said, she faced severe backlash and wasThis photo of Weiss, posted to X, created a firestorm that, she claims, got her locked out of research rooms at San Jose State University.
The professional ostracism, she said, extended to being removed from academic conferences and having her work rejected by editors. Weiss argues that the cultural shift towards prioritizing indigenous oral traditions over scientific evidence has led to a significant loss in our ability to reconstruct the past. She challenges the notion that indigenous knowledge should be equated with scientific knowledge, viewing the former as mythological rather than empirical.
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