![]() ![]() A resurgence is overdue.Īrgonauts of the Western Pacific. ![]() Businesses and governments are calling more often on anthropologists to help them understand the complexities of the societies in which they operate. In a time of polarisation and group-think anthropology’s insights, gained from close study of how people actually live, can be a corrective. Yet, as the anthropologist Eric Wolf declared in 1964, ”anthropology is both the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences.” As these books show, it still has much to tell us. ![]() As a result, the discipline’s cultural relevance has diminished in recent years, along with money for universities’ anthropology departments. Anthropologists spend years gathering their findings and their results are not replicable. Its central method of conducting fieldwork in communities is unlike those of other academic disciplines, including sociology, which draws on large data sets. The Greek roots of the word anthropology mean “human being” and “study”. I F YOU ASK 100 anthropologists what they do you could easily get 101 different answers. ![]()
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