Question

A 2018 essay describes the “pendulum” of this kind of person from “science to art and back again.” In an essay that discusses its author’s Mumbai roots to reject a contrast with “real” examples of these people, Kirin Narayan asked “How ‘Native’ is a ‘Native’” person of this kind. Tim Ingold is this type of person, (-5[1])which is called a “human instrument” in Stranger and Friend, a book about their Way by Hortense Powdermaker. These people deny “coevalness” (-5[1])to others, per Johannes Fabian’s Time and the Other. A memoir (10[1])by a man of this profession opens “I hate traveling (10[6])and (10[3])explorers.” (10[3]-5[1])Another man (-5[1])of this profession with a French surname was falsely accused of spreading (10[1])measles in the book Darkness in El Dorado. (10[1])For 10 points, Brazil was a site of work by Napoleon (-5[1])Chagnon (10[1])(“SHAG-non”) and (10[1])Tristes Tropiques author Claude Lévi-Strauss, two of (10[1])what researchers? ■END■ (10[6])

ANSWER: anthropologists [accept cultural anthropologists; accept “How Native Is a ‘Native’ Anthropologist?”; prompt on ethnographers or participant observers; prompt on researchers; prompt on social scientists; prompt on professors or academics or scholars; prompt on answers indicating people engaged in fieldwork]
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Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y24100%0%21%116.25

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Crow HeNorth Carolina BVanderbilt55-5
Jisoo YooTexasVirginia Tech77-5
John MarvinChicago AWaterloo A8810
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BFlorida9810
Parth JagtapToronto CIowa State9810
Michał GerasimiukStanfordIndiana9810
Yrwin BatanMITJohns Hopkins9810
Akshar GoyalIllinois AWUSTL A9810
Joel MilesMinnesotaCornell A9810
Tony ChenToronto ANorth Carolina A9910
Michael KearneyHarvardGeorgia Tech9910
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateWaterloo B9910
Ani PerumallaPenn StateBritish Columbia100-5
Chris SimsNorthwesternUC Berkeley A10010
Aryan DesarapuMichiganMaryland10010
Bryan UgazArizona StateLSE10010
Ryan RosenbergNYUYale102-5
Kunaal ChandrashekarToronto BChicago B11410
Geoffrey WuColumbia ARutgers12210
John John GrogerWUSTL BOttawa133-5
Simon ZimmermanOhio StateIllinois B13410
Henry BonWinona StateVirginia13510
Cade ReinbergerRITCornell B14210
Jem BurchYaleNYU14510
Truman HillVanderbiltNorth Carolina B14510
Noah ChinVirginia TechTexas14510
Colin VeeversOttawaWUSTL B14510
Derek ChenColumbia BUCF14510
John ChenBritish ColumbiaPenn State14510