“We refrain from the attempt to solve the fundamental proble…
“We refrain from the attempt to solve the fundamental problem of the general development of civilization until we have been able to unravel the processes what are going on under our eyes.” In other words, anthropologists should delay constructing general theories that fit all of humankind before we understand each culture fully. Who is associated with this idea?
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“We are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contravention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-produce of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.” Who is associated with this argument?
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