Honestly not surprised at cultural anthropology having some chud professors. Some of them have white savior complexes because it originated as a white savior discipline.
edit: and tons of anthroplogists are complicit in destroying local ecosystems with their knowledge of benefits of plants for certain medicines, which in turn destroys indigenous communities.
Look up Henry Steel Olcott. He's the western "rational buddhist" godfather, way before Sam Harris. A lot of it is basically puritanical western beliefs with buddhist clothes and without the Jesus. He probably brought some of that denial of self and life from his protestant upbringing, but I'm too uninformed to make further comments.