Ruth Hubbard on Power & the Meaning of Differences

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Nov 27 11:45:23 PST 1999


Rakesh Bhandari wrote:


> Yoshie posted from Ruth Hubbard:
>
> >*Differences, be they biological or psychological, become scientifically
> >interesting only when they parallel differences in power.*
>
> This seems to me wrong. Let's say we wanted to figure out whether
> agriculture was brought to the British Isles by a conquering group (the
>

Why in the world did you ask this question instead of a question about differences in marriage customs in the Amazon and the Mexican Plateau regions 1000 years ago?

This is a serious question. Surely marriage customs and their variation is of far more historical significance than the question of how agriculture moves from one area to another.

Carrol



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