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Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North American Academic Communities

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By Mary A. Leighton, Ian Hodder, Copa Mamani, McCall Howard
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ABSTRACT en Using the example of Andean archaeology, this article focuses on subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendship‐based and egalitarian, rejecting explicit hierarchy. I describe this as performative informality and argue that it stems from a meritocratic ideology that inadvertently reproduces Euro‐American white‐male privilege.
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