Title: Research based on betrayal has no place in anthropology
Product review: My daughter is a sophmore in college, and she loaned me her copy of My Freshman Year. As an anthropologist I was disapointed to see "Rebekah Nathan" use dishonesty at so many junctures where a straight forward approach would have produced similar or better results. Nathan seemed to believed that these freshmen were so exotic that they would not be honest with her, so then she chose to become the liar and misrepresented herself to them. I hope she leaves anthropology for sociology, where such practices are more accepted, anthropologists have no use for such trickery. It is remarkable how many of these non-anthropologist reviewers here don't understand the damage "Rebekah Nathan" has done.
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