"There is a demand to live there, but it's a demand from a very specific group of people, and it's not a very big demographic," says Nick Simcik Arese, an anthropologist at the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, and a former resident of, and researcher in, the new desert town of Haram City.
Ask Torontonians to name their favourite purchase from the Honest Ed's department store, and you rapidly compile a compendium of kitsch to fascinate any anthropologist from the future.
American cultural anthropologist Professor Alexander Edmonds, from the University of Edinburgh, remembers when our teeth were an international joke.
Next to Kamerić's mortuary fridge are two skulls and two bronze heads showing what these people would have looked like, made by the artist Christine Borland with the help of a forensic anthropologist and facial reconstruction expert.
One of those early-20th-century English anthropologist travels to Africa to expose the foolishness of what they presume to be "primitive" beliefs.
Irna Qureshi is an anthropologist and writer on British Asian culture.
In February, startling aerial footage of uncontacted tribes on the Brazil-Peruvian border, brought to us via the great Brazilian anthropologist, José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles, was released (you may have seen the footage on the BBC's Human Planet).
Till then, Flavien Ndonko an anthropologist at GTZ is optimistic about the impact educating women will have in decreasing the scale of breast ironing in parts of Cameroon.
Financial Times journalist and fellow anthropologist Gillian Tett argued that the book was "not just thought-provoking but exceedingly timely", not least, no doubt, because in it Graeber called for a biblical-style "jubilee", meaning a wiping out of sovereign and consumer debts.
The renowned amateur anthropologist Charles Mountford promoted a 1945 lecture tour about Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land under the title Australia's Stone Age Men, drawing on a stereotype that had defined the work of Darwinists and phrenologists for 150 years.
Ominously, a few of the universities that already use quotas have created evaluation committees to police student applications for possible "race fraud"."If you have a society that is based on sameness, you shouldn't throw that away," says Peter Fry, an anthropologist who has studied race and racial politics in Africa and Brazil.
