::headdesk:: Yes. The guy who debunked Margaret Mead was a serious jerk. He did have some good points, as I recall, but he completely failed to take the times into account. That was a whole Thing while I was working at the AAA.

Anthropologists do, indeed, spend a lot of time sniping at each other. Maybe not quite as much as in Elizabeth Peters' books, but much more than they should ;)