“I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes me as a kind of medieval scholasticism of a special kind.” KindPoliticalSpecialDisciplineScientistProfessionStrikesBoredMainstreamFrankBoresMedievalScholasticism Author:James C. Scott
“The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.” WorldSocialScientistAspirationGossipPrivilegedRumorTemperatureAnthropologists Author:James C. Scott
