AbstractBarack Obama was the first son of a PhD anthropologist to serve as President of the United States, and some popular press linked his political views and actions, which were allegedly in violation of international law, to failures in American anthropology to uphold international law as well as to personal failures by anthropologists to transmit the professional ethics of the discipline to their offspring. This essay examines those critiques and identifies deficiencies in anthropological presentations of ‘multiculturalism’ and in anthropology’s adherence to international law. It also reviews the cultural self-identification of President Obama, drawing attention to the sub-cultures of ‘expat’ communities like those in which President Obama was raised and in which many practising anthropologists and their children live.

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总统的母亲人类学家和人类学家的儿子

摘要巴拉克·奥巴马是人类学家博士的第一个儿子担任美国总统，一些大众媒体将其涉嫌违反国际法的政治观点和行为与美国人类学未能维护国际法联系起来。至于人类学家个人未能将学科的职业道德传递给他们的后代。本文考察了这些批评，并指出了人类学对“多元文化主义”的描述以及人类学对国际法的遵守方面的缺陷。它还回顾了奥巴马总统的文化自我认同，提请注意“外籍”社区的亚文化，例如奥巴马总统成长的地方以及许多实践人类学家及其子女生活的地方。