They are openly mocked. If you don't lock them, you will not be published. It's one of the reasons why the Many Peoples theory for the Americas is not talked about publicly. The idea that several groups found the Americas opens the idea of one being Israelite.

Anthropology has had problems for a long time. Our job is to explain cultures to other cultures. It was originally for Europeans about any culture considered outsider. The first native anthropologists I know about were the brothers Grimm. We only talk about the fairy tales, not why they were collecting them. Many papers and academic journals demand the people being studied be viewed as weird foreigners. Doing comparisons is often difficult because one group is foreign and the other is normal.

What we see now is academics trying to make the weirdness as the actual culture, and that it needs to be accepted. Two spirits, fafafine, ritualistic cannibalism and others are real, but not in the way explained. It's really obvious that they're politicizing it when you see that the standard two year study is being ignored for graduate level programs. If you say what the committee wants to hear, they ignore all the checks we put in to make sure the truth is found.

It's annoying.