Perspectives An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology The History of Anthropological Ideas

PART 333 13 THE HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL IDEAS Laura Nader , The University of California , Berkeley Learning Objectives Identify the central concepts of cultural anthropology and describe how each of these concepts contributed to the development of the discipline . Describe the role anthropologists play in examining cultural assumptions and explain how the anthropological perspective differs from both ethnocentrism and American . Explain the relationship between early anthropology and colonialism and assess the ways in which the demise of colonialism changed the practice of anthropology . Evaluate the topical or thematic that exist within contemporary anthropology as examples of the range of and concerns anthropologists address . Anthropology is the study of humankind , otherwise known as Homo sapiens , the wise primate . It is about our history , our prehistory before written records , our biology , our language , our distribution of peoples all over the planet , and the cultural and social aspects of our existence . The methods we use on this journey are varied and unusual discipline . What is perhaps unique about is its global quality , its comparative potential , and its integrative possibilities , which result from its examination of histories , languages , and variations . As a discipline , it is unusual because it is both soft and hard , including science as well as the humanities , between nature and culture , the past and the present , searching for new ways to understand the human condition . We are an discipline with porous boundaries that has refused to specialize and as a result can claim to have 335

336 PERSPECTIVES AN OPEN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL made enormous contributions to understanding what it means to be human . Anthropology is a young discipline , in only its fourth generation , one of the first of the new sciences along with ecology . In the nineteenth century , archaeology challenged short of biblical origin with longer time depth , while biological and cultural anthropology questioned stereotyped thinking about race and ethnicity . anthropology moved from armchair theorizing to fieldwork and , with the concept of cultural relativism , challenged predominant theories of the day , including scientific theories . We know that science is created by humans so it is bound to have human limitations , human error , human ignorance . Such realizations made us think about how knowledge is created and the idea that western ways of thinking are the only source of truth . Early climate predictions were available in Peru before the arrival of European . CENTRAL CONCEPTS Culture A central concept in our discipline is the idea of culture , a concept that changed how we explain human differences . Edward Burnett ( was an English Quaker who , because of prejudice , could not enroll in any English universities and so went to work in his fathers business . However , in his he became ill , and his doctor recommended rest and travel . traveled first to Cuba and then to Mexico for six months . While the idea of culture was not new , used the concept to make sense of what he learned from his travels . In his 1871 book , Primitive Culture , he defined the idea Culture or civilization , taken in its ethnographic sense , is that complex whole which includes knowledge , beliefs , art , morals , law , custom , and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of We are all human , something that Columbus was not so sure about in 1492 when he first encountered the or , more generally , the . Before , were explained as due to climate differences or even as God choice , ideas about difference . approach opened new vistas in anthropology . In North America , Lewis Henry Morgan ( a lawyer who had grown up amid the , wrote League of the in 1851 . He noticed that their terms for kinfolk were not classified in the same way as English terms . Terminology for cousins was different depending on whether the nal or fraternal line was credited . As a lawyer for the New York Central Railroad , he had noticed other differences among speakers of other languages as well . Morgan began to collect kinship from all over the world , and in 1871 he published his master work , Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity , which would French anthropologist Claude Levi . New questions arose . Could terminology be a key to understanding the social organization of small societies ?

The were matrilineal membership in a clan was determined by female links only , and ones father and his sisters and brothers belonged to a different clan . Without going into further detail , it should be clear that the invention of the concept of culture paved the way for explaining among peoples . Culture differentiates peoples , but in the process , we need to remember we are all members of the same species . We might identify others according to their color , but all peoples everywhere share the need to survive disease . Every society has primary groups , such as families , whose primary function is to have and raise children .

337 Holism Another important founding father of American anthropology was Franz Boas ( a scholar originally trained in physics . He turned to anthropology after a to Island , land of the in the Canadian Arctic . He began to study their language . He came to the United States , where he is recognized as the father of cultural anthropology . More than anyone , Boas framed the discipline around the concept of holism taking a broad view of the cal and cultural foundations of behavior rather than attributing differences to biology dismantling the concept of race . Although he stressed cultural differences , he explained such differences in terms of the historical development of each culture . In his book Race , Language , and Culture ( 1940 ) he stressed the idea that there is no necessary correlation between race , language , and culture , that physical does not determine culture or ability to learn any language . Boas is also noted for his development of the concepts of cultural relativism and cultural all behavioral differences among peoples result from cultural , not racial or genetic causes . It was Boas who grounded the discipline in four fields and founded the American Anthropological . The four , cultural , linguistic , and physical most departments in the United States until more recently when four became five with medical . Throughout the development of anthropology in the United States , there was a fear of tion for holistic thinkers . As Boas noted in 1905 , there are indications of anthropology breaking up . The biologic , linguistic , and methods are so It must be noted that Boas trained many women anthropologists such as Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict , knowing that diversifying by including people of all genders was important to successful fieldwork . Plasticity Talking about biologically superior and inferior races was common to who carried the notion of the white man burden , in which it was their mission to civilize the savages or , among some groups , to classify groups according to their perceived slots , as for example , the idea that some races were thought to be biologically intended to be solely servants ! The scientific study of race has often in confusion and misunderstanding over the past 200 years even though anthropologists have repeatedly stressed the observation that people can be equally endowed without being alike . In spite of our efforts , race bigots are alive and well . It is apparently comforting to believe that we are the best , a belief that is not restricted to . After all , Navajo means people and many groups think they are superior to others . Thus , Boas assessment was that all healthy individuals of the Homo species had the capacity to learn any language or culture , that plasticity is part of our species . In the contemporary world , difference is treated as if it were a problem . Why ?

Some say the ment of cheap labor , debates over racism and tolerance in the midst of refugee crises , the power of the Islamic In other words , to colonialist language in modern garb , state management of diversity and politics , institutionalized racism , and the primacy of difference , especially in the context of Europe and the United States . In early 2001 , a volume by historian Elisabeth was . Race Experts , Etiquette , Sensitivity Training , and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution examined the industry and industry that have flourished and have had difficulty acknowledging that any differences between people may be superficial compared with what they have in common . The concept of race also avoid discussion of class and inequality associated with

338 PERSPECTIVES AN OPEN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL poverty . Such engineering is deeply interested in difference as a problem . The pursuit of by state structures is something that has been observed all over Europe and the Western worlds , especially at the contemporary moment when refugees are pouring into western countries from North Africa and the Middle East . Participant Observation With European colonization of peoples around the globe , more anthropological research around the planet began to happen . Better data collection came to be referred to as participant observation ing that the participated in the daily lives of the people they studied , learned their , and became immersed in the ordinary workings of others societies . A Polish anthropologist , is often credited with setting the standard for ethnography with vision . had studied in London , and during World War I , he found himself in the Islands , then a British dependency . Although he was a Pole , he was allowed to remain in the . He had to learn the to because the local people were his only . He moved among native people , speaking to them in their language . He studied their dens , magic , science , with the tools of participant observing . wrote a number of based on his Work there of the Western ( 1922 ) on trade and the economy involving multiple sites , The Sexual Life of the Savages ( 1929 ) about kinship and sexuality , Coral Gardens and ( 1935 ) on gardens and farming , and Crime and Custom in a Savage Society ( 1926 ) dealt with problems of law and social order . set a very high standard for participatory ethnographic fieldwork that stands to this day , a standard in which ethnography was theory , not mere description . The ethnography itself , as well as its explanatory uses , is a theoretical endeavor , a combination of loose and strict The invention of new technologies facilitates new frontiers of ethnography . In linguistic , the appearance of the cassette tape recorder and shotgun microphones in the early , of video cameras in the early , and of the internet and other electronic inventions in the past 25 years has allowed people to seek connections hitherto unnoticed . Similarly , geographic information systems , so important to archeologists and ecological anthropologists , are also used to locate the people we study . In the process , have lost the possibility of immersion in other cultures with little Contact from home sites . Technological innovations connect us all , for better or for worse . Area Studies and Beyond By the century , the major concepts were in place for the , comparison , and ethnography as participation fieldwork . The organizing concept is area studies . Anthropology departments commonly organize their around area studies courses taught about Africa , the Middle East , East Asia , China , Latin America , Europe , and so forth . Students learn about the geography and history and delve into specific topics such as religion , kinship , minorities , and that equip them for a general understanding of a particular geographic area . Area specialties are useful for gaining funding , job searching , and hires especially in large departments . In more recent times , critical research has investigated the origins of area studies in museums and in association with the military . It was American imperialist , Alfred , who first called the area between Europe and India the Middle East . Area studies are useful , but they can cause intellectual

339 blindness that limits the anthropological analysis and imagination . At times , those who go beyond the boundaries of a region have been censored , raising the question Can we be both area scholars and searching for similarities and differences between cultures , or even who study the spread of cultural ideas from one area to another . The study of the colonized and not the ers still haunts our work . In 1989 , Sir Edmund Leach had to reiterate that social systems are open , not bounded . We live in a globalized world , and , as Sidney reminded us in his 1996 distinguished lecture to the American Anthropological Association , we have been globalized for a very long The subject matter of anthropological research was expanding from isolated locales to the urban ethnography of cities such as ethnography of urban in A Black Byzantium ( 1942 ) and Cora Du Bois investigation of the link between culture and personality and in The People ( 1944 ) In 1949 , Clyde published Mirror for Man The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life . It was time to use the study of others to examine their own cultures and to test assumptions that might be ethnocentric . Margaret Mead had already published Coming of Age in ( 1928 ) in which she examined the adolescence problem as originating in culture , not as a physical and inevitable result of hormones as commonly thought in the United States at the time . Thus , through the comparative method we may learn that while human populations face some common problems , such as growing up , each addresses those problems in different ways . Mead findings were considered controversial by some thus , it is not surprising that some years and Beatrice Whiting carried out a controlled comparison of Six Cultures Studies of Child Rearing ( 1963 ) one of which was in New England . Gradually , anthropology was no longer the study of savages or primitives it became the study of all human cultures . As Ruth Benedict pointed out in her bestselling Patterns of Culture ( 1934 ) people of different cultures interpret life differently . Her observation implied that one can not judge one culture as superior to another . Both Boas and elaborated on cultural relativism . Boas in particular pushed hard against the common tendency to judge others by one own culture rather than by the basic assumptions of the culture being studied . He was fighting the phenomenon called ethnocentrism , ing the world through one own glasses . Ethnocentrism allowed people to see or categorize others as somehow less than or inferior , as primitive and in need of aid or Examining Cultural Assumptions The fight against in the United States today is sometimes called ( we are always better ) what motivates anthropologists to examine assumptions commonly used by Americans for example , or even embedded in the work of anthropologists themselves . Indeed , as workers , anthropologists must understand themselves , understand the eyes doing the recording of ers . Does an anthropologist gender what he or she sees ?

Does an aversion to affect the record , the choice of research interests ?

Do the bilingual or characteristics of increase sensitivity in the field ?

The that we produce are , in the final analysis , the theory of what we do and why , and what the people we study do and why a Man . A frequently cited example of analyzing the underlying premises is ( a British anthropologist who published Witchcraft , Oracles , and Magic among the ( 1937 ) a work of ethnography as theory . His study of the of the southern was meant to indicate why and how beliefs in magic and witchcraft made perfect sense according to premises ( and to many peoples everywhere who wanted to understand human ills such as disease and death ) He avoided ethnocentric notions like they are ignorant His point was that their

340 PERSPECTIVES AN OPEN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY beliefs made sense given their premises , and that they were as logical as any other people . The main son the work is so much cited is that the main discovery is that we are all caught in our premises , our unchallenged assumptions . This idea applies to any thought including western science , as for ple , the nuclear religion belief that President Eisenhower atoms for peace made up for ping nuclear bombs on Japan during World War II , in spite of scientists inability to deal with nuclear waste and other associated problems . In case , he was writing not merely about the or , later , about the herdsmen he was also writing about how a particular ethnography is theoretically comparative , raising issues about our ingrained premises . By , had begun to include power as with The Political Systems of Highland Burma by Sir Edmund Leach ( 1954 ) Although there was general agreement in anthropology , scholars in academia were hesitant to deal with the phenomenon of power in anything but abstract terms . Also around the same time , Gregory was reissued ( 1958 ) and began to stand the many different lenses useful for interpreting the lives and rituals of people under study . By the , the unease in American academia began to be affected by the Civil Rights Movement , the war in Vietnam , the American Indian Movement , and sexual and gender . Dell edited a book ( 1972 ) called Reinventing Anthropology which called anthropologists to a revised or reinvented anthropology , one that took into consideration race , newly independent states , and what might be called the vertical slice . Laura Nader wrote Up the Anthropologist Perspectives Gained from Studying Up , a thought piece about the need to study up , down , and sideways as a way to liberate anthropologists from narrow concerns and . For example , she argued for ing the as well as the colonized , for understanding poverty and ghettos in connection with practices , which were essentially illegal , for understanding the enormous role rations play in raising our children through the foods they prepare or the technologies required of dren as part of their normal schooling . Today , some anthropologists study up while others study up , down , and sideways Moving into the century , anthropologists had major intellectual interests in political economy , gender , representation , the Cold War , the Native American Grave Protection and tion Act ( the anthropology of science , colonialism , tourism and more . The story of how the study of humankind advanced over a century does not move in steady progression . Science is prickly and contentious , and anthropology , more than most disciplines , is not only contentious but also reflexive . Indeed , the tradition has helped us adapt to the incoherent conditions of history and the new technologies that have come with it . So one might conclude that what changed least was what scholars in 1929 called the anthropological attitude , which values both detachment and involvement as a mode of rethinking assumptions , while the changed relationship between those who study and those being studied forced anthropologists to reconsider the conditions under which their knowledge had been acquired . In addition , anthropology has increasingly become a worldwide . THE FALL OF COLONIALISM AND THE RISE OF NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES About 500 years ago , the first major colonization movements by western Europeans were a result of Portugal , Spain , and England looking for new resources . Colonies were implanted in Africa , Asia , and the New World . A second major colonial movement arose after the Industrial Revolution , in part by a search for cheap labor and resources . By the end of the nineteenth century , Britain ,

France , Belgium , and Germany had divided up Africa , and Britain , France , and the United States were acquiring territories in the Pacific . Especially in Britain and France , ethnographic research was aged as a function of colonialism . Thus , well into the 19505 , anthropologists were employed by colonial offices . The demise of colonialism and emergence of new independent states gave rise to issues such as plundering of resources , and the new nations produced their own whose approaches to anthropology were different from the approaches used by the colonial powers . from Mexico , Brazil , and the Indian subcontinent primarily studied their own people . Only the travelers from these former colonial countries thought about the as their In part , these anthropologists set about correcting previously set anthropological agendas . More or less quiet debates are now occurring as to what a global anthropology should entail . Colleagues outside of the world have criticized our biases and . Their polite underscored the need for and the calibration of the this instance , the anthropologist . Anthropologists in France , the Middle East , India , Pakistan , and elsewhere are pointing to difficulty in coming to terms with power . The French fieldwork tradition sees research as inherently fraught with power relations . Our foreign colleagues are raising questions about scientific validity . The small social groups that classical anthropologists as stable or static units are now recognized as part of larger worlds that reconstitute them and are reconstituted in turn The World Bank , the International Monetary Fund , and trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement ( and trade deals with Europe and the . Akbar Ahmed , an anthropologist from Pakistan who trained in Britain , indicates what new can be gleaned by anthropologists in The Thistle and the Drone How can War on Terror Became a Global War on Islam ( 201 ) Ahmed work , the third in a trilogy , combines ethnographic analysis with history and comparison and uses his experience , which includes work as a Pakistani government agent and later as ambassador to . Ahmed is also a poet , a playwright , a film producer , and an inexhaustible public speaker . He is presently the Ibn dun chair for Islamic Studies at the American University of Washington , He is What some call a public whose work is accessible to anthropologists as well as to the public in general . In his book , Ahmed includes the tribal peoples , the state , the American empire , and technology to understand the problems that began with European colonization and continued through the period of , when the periphery became attached or connected to a state that gave them few rights . Ahmed book a paradigm shift in the analyses of states and empires as well as the tribes , which were the traditional subject for ethnography . Thus , he includes not only the tribes , but also Osama bin Laden , the president of Pakistan , the ident of the American empire , and the agonies of the anthropologist who discovers the horrors and hurts . Ahmed is a humanist anthropologist arguing for mutual respect and . Perhaps he can be thought of as an Islamic anthropologist in contrast to a Christian or Jewish anthropologist he is objective and subjective and includes us and The book discusses 40 examples of peripheral Islamic groups and their relations with state authorities to illustrate the relationship between center and periphery from to Yemen and across North Africa to Indonesia and the pines . Ahmed concludes that drone strikes and cruel invasions by the central government will not work towards peace and mutual respect given that brutal revenge attacks from the periphery will continue in reaction to state and empire aggressions . Experts on terrorism ignore both culture and historical text . When anthropologists have dealt with the periphery , we have too often supported state tion , maneuvered the creation of reservations , and sometimes closed our eyes to mass killings . The new dimensions mentioned above must not detract from the solid contributions of

342 PERSPECTIVES AN OPEN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL of the British functionalist schools to our understanding of political and social processes in Africa , New Guinea , Burma , and elsewhere . In Africa , they were the first to address problems of order in of tens of thousands of people with no government , no police , and no where social control was achieved by means of social relationships . The concept of was used to understand African modes of maintaining peace through feuding , another piece of the picture of order in stateless societies that might be useful to the United Nations . The British focus was more On the cept of social organization than culture , on the colonized rather than the . SPECIALIZATION A WIDE RANGE In the century , Norwegian anthropologist Barth ( challenged the British school work on Africa and their position that social systems transcended individual actors . On the contrary , Barth argued that political systems were generated by individual actors seeking to their positions . In his ethnography on the Swat in northern Pakistan , Barth ( 1959 ) was moving away from the functionalist equilibrium analysis toward examinations of processes of change . Others followed suit in their arguments . According to , the notion that individuals to maximize power is a distortion of history . and the Colonial Encounter ( 1973 ) notes that Barth conclusions were accelerated by British colonial practices in India and the northern frontier . critique made a critical point the political system must be seen as part of a wider tem that is based on a historical perspective that also includes class as an important variable but does not nullify individual choices . Control is both political and economic . The conversations about Barth work were to continue later in the work of Pakistani anthropologist Akbar Ahmed . Anthropology can now be said to be a cosmopolitan dialogue . As the number of anthropologists expanded so did the number of specialties , especially in large departments . Indeed the small departments are most likely to teach anthropology from a generalist point of view . While kinship and religion were the major specialties more than half a century ago , we now find professors specialized in fields like tourism , political economics , law , gender , folklore , as well as areas such as the Middle East , for example , or southern Africa , or Mexico ( previously ) and so forth . In addition , there are many kinds of anthropology , such as applied and practicing . These are found in dedicated journals for cognitive anthropology , law and politics , and musicology while general reports may be found in the British journal Anthropology Today or in News in the United States , and in journals such as American Anthropologist or RAI , the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute . The following examples give some insight into the general range of questions being addressed . Political Economy A political economy approach the world as an open system , as process not stasis . To understand how power works in the world today requires comparison , paying attention to the tion of power and culture . One example of this approach is found in the work of Ashraf , whose research focused on the history of power , particularly in Afghanistan , and who later became president of To understand how power works requires attention to disintegration as well as , on a local and global levels , which are then compared in terms of process , not societies . Work in this area has brought radical changes to traditional ethnography . An economic

343 tem such as corporate capitalism is treated as a type of economy that may change in particular context , such as contemporary China , in direct contrast to World system theorists who track the distribution of a system across the globe . There are many kinds of capitalism , regional capitalism , and corporate capitalism . In Worked Over The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community , for ple , 2003 ) covered dramatic changes in northern New York mill towns in the Mohawk River Valley with the move from regional to corporate or global capitalism . She documented the impact of corporate capitalism on the American workers on Whose back American industry was built . Over 100 years , these vibrant industrial centers had become impoverished . Earlier still , Anthony Wallace , in his underappreciated book ( 1978 ) wrote the story of An account of the coming of the machines , the making of a new way of life in the mill hamlets , the triumph of evangelical capitalists over socialists and infidels , and the transformation of the workers into Christian soldiers in a district in Pennsylvania in the years before and during the Civil Power and Politics Continuing examination of power centered on control as the dynamic of power . Laura Nader early study , Controlling Processes ( 1997 ) focused on means of exercising power , a catalyst for analyzing the role of free will in power relations in American society . Examples were taken from the tive movement in US . law , which diminished the civil justice system in the United States and then went global , the standardization of definitions of beauty , which has spread globally , or the content of museum exhibits , or examining how marketing firms teenagers perceptions of parental authority . The study of controlling processes enabled readers to understand control as indirect means to power and to recognize the fragility of both culture and its human carriers . In Buddha is ing Refugees , Citizenship , The New America , Ong ( 2003 ) followed the everyday lives of dian refugees in California as they dealt with American values that contradicted Cambodian values in a story of Cambodian Americans experiencing American citizenship , a bottom up study about the impact of medical , social welfare , judicial , religious , and economic institutions of citizen making . This ethnography is about Cambodian Americans and about the types of controls operating across American institutions seeking to mold a certain type of citizen and the book is a examination of the reconfiguring of citizenship in a world of wars and movements . World events are critical to academic pursuits , and anthropology had successes in World War 11 because of previous anthropological work in areas that became war zones . The Cold War following World War II also wrought critical changes . The number of anthropologists expanded , as did funding , and access to military technology revolutionized our in all fields , although differently . For sociocultural anthropologists , the Cold War raised issues of race , war , genocide , counterinsurgency , and natural resources . We realized that anthropology was not an autonomous pursuit instead , all of academia was embedded in politics . Anthropologists such as Hugh ( 1996 ) and Joseph ( 2006 ) began to write about nuclear laboratory During a decade in which nuclear and alternative energy systems have played critical roles in world events , a anthropology was a requirement . Anthropology has integrated holism , tion of history and the depth of time , and the consequences arising from how language frames thought . The discourse of energy specialists , for example , was rooted in models of growth that assumed an unlimited supply of natural resources and undervalued ecosystems . The idea that energy experts might be part of the problem was novel , as was the idea that energy problems have human dimensions , a theme

344 PERSPECTIVES AN OPEN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL explored in works such as The Energy Reader ( Nader 2010 ) Cultures of Energy Power , Practices , and ( Strauss , and Love 2013 ) and and the Anthropology of Energy ( Boyer 2011 ) All of us were by campus struggles in the 1960 and 19705 over militarism , national capitalism , scientific racism , and the politics of gender . But a larger question remains What makes people human ?

Subdividing and Specializing Expanded funding in the four basic fields and in medical anthropology led to and ical expertise . In sociocultural anthropology , these include in the law , politics , the , religion , ecology , medical issues , art , and education . Anthropologist Eric Wolf ( was critical of the tendency to specialize We subdivide and subdivide and call it The tory of anthropology now goes far beyond disciplinary boundaries to include the impact of national policies , militarism , and priorities in funding . Credit goes to David Price , who singlehandedly the history of anthropology in its widest context in his book Anthropological Intelligence The ment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War ( 2008 ) After all , our nationalities are in the work we do . However , as anthropologists specialized , the concept of culture spread beyond the discipline to sociology , psychology , business schools , law schools , and beyond . Culture as a concept was loose on the streets ! We now have cultural sociology , cultural psychology , cultural , cultural law . Changes in the field , which included fascination with French philosophers such as Michel and Jacques and French anthropologist Pierre , stimulated vigorous critiques . Others used the changes to enrich ethnography . People built on June Nash ethnography of a Bolivian tin mine , We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us ( 1979 ) which followed industrial mining that came with Spanish conquest , still causing internal problems today since controls continue to operate on Bolivia from beyond its borders . Some call this global development theory . Because of all of this intellectual ferment , we now realize that anthropology has much to say about our own lives . Our are written about the Shanghai stock market and the invention of derivatives on Wall Examinations of law and finance have moved from the earlier intersections of anthropology and law primarily associated with resolution of disputes in small locales to connecting legal knowledge ( that is , knowledge ) to global financial markets and their legal and tory practices in which traders deal with probabilities and legal Also in the vein of banking is the interest in Islamic banking . Though Islam forbids collecting interest , Islamic financial concerns operate in some 70 countries and have assets in the range of 200 Studies of the alternative currencies of Islamic banks are part and parcel of law , economics , and finance and the anthropologist subject goes beyond the tribe , village , state , and even geographic region . The anthropology of policy worlds is an emerging field that covers the politics of , the rise of audit cultures and their impacts on culture and society , and the spread of diseases such as cholera In Global , Technology , Politics , and Ethics as Anthropological Problems ( 2005 ) Ong and Stephen Collier integrate issues that are , including concern with ethics . Anthropologists are asking , for example , why some informants waste time with anthropologists and what exactly the collaborative engagement of anthropologists and subjects is in terms of ethics . New concerns with of nature and culture led to studies of mythologies of menopause in japan and North America and the pharmaceutical business . Can menopause really be a disease if it happens to all women ?

Similar questions are asked of aging in The examination of energy use in culture and society is rapidly expanding along with studies of emerging industrial businesses that 345 use for commercial and regulatory Thus , anthropologists like Nancy Hughes and , are are studying the buying , selling , and theft of human body parts , the significance of the concept of brain dead , and who owns the body in books like Bodies ( 2002 ) Building on ethics and human rights issues are decades of research by Nancy . In Death without Weeping ( 1992 ) she addressed violence in everyday life and how violence and even death become normal and routine . She has made her work public by sharing with journalists wherever possible , testifying in court regarding crimes against humanity , and working hand in hand with Israeli colleagues . The work is , sometimes conducting research undercover while examining networks and transplant tourism . Though power need not be the central theme for all , it is critical for understanding central dogmas . Audiences for Anthropology Our audiences are unpredictable . Anthropologists who speak to a public wider than members of the discipline often have a greater immediate impact outside the discipline than in it . When I began ing and speaking about coercive harmony , interest among anthropologists was slow to develop ( for reasons I examine elsewhere ) while those who had felt the sting of being coercively recognized its power in the workplace with quality circles , with facilitators in movements at loggerheads with negotiation , and on Native American when dealing with negotiations over nuclear waste . Grade schools regularly taught harmony ideology and in global arenas lawyers were up against new international negotiators selling psychology rather than the rule of And in the 2016 presidential election , the Republican candidate used language that would be considered uncivil under the harmony model but received tive responses from voters . If we remain ignorant of debates outside of academia , we will increasingly find ourselves talking mainly to each other , trapped in a diminished space and working in cramped It took an anthropologist , David , to notice that debt was on the mind of many , especially economically insecure Americans and the young who were in heavy debt for their costs in higher ber book Debt The First 5000 Years ( 2011 ) was an instant bestseller worldwide . Debt is a problem that affects all societies that employ money . His analysis helps us understand the present economic situation by means of a perspective . In similar critical efforts , has moved to other issues on people minds . In 2001 , he published Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value ( 2001 ) and more recently he explored political ideologies and exotic practices by tribes in The Utopia of Rules On Technology , Stupidity , and the Secret joys ( 2015 ) Though is thought of as a ist in studies of the Occupy Wall Street movement , his initial fieldwork was conducted in Madagascar . Some of the most distinguished anthropologists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were effective for the demarcation of science from other forms of knowledge such as magic and religion . As represented by Boas and , who were trained in physics and mathematics , anthropological work in the late twentieth century work was grounded in the ethnographic study of the practice of science , which did not always privilege western science . Modern scientists are ing paths with indigenous peoples biologists are side by side with indigenous peoples whose ecological knowledge they covet . Rapid globalization makes considerations of intermingling of knowledge inevitable . There is power in how traditional knowledge is produced in very ent cultures , such as comparing our own culture with that of the or with peoples of the Amazon . We study not only indigenous plants and Pacific marine biology ( and their appropriation

346 PERSPECTIVES AN OPEN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL of that knowledge ) but physics and biotechnology laboratories and as well . wrote about magic , science , and religion among the we ( following Leach advice ) ine magic , science , and religion in national laboratories . Science Emerging of science are having as powerful an effect on contemporary anthropology as earlier studies of political economy and colonialism . Comparison of American physicists physicists or Japanese and American show that science is not free of culture but , rather , is full of Meanwhile , anthropologists working in African agriculture have noted the devastating effects of a cultural preference for universal explanations that override cal particularism and It sounds counterintuitive , but based on measures of energy expended per calorie of food produced , industrial agriculture is the most inefficient form of food production in the history and prehistory of humankind ?

The principles of a physical model may not be true at all times or in all places since , even in Europe , there are many scientific traditions . When approaches and technologies are transferred elsewhere , there can be downsides . In Naked Science Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries , Power , and Knowledge ( 1996 ) Laura Nader discusses the power of western science over other sciences around the world , revealing a cultural framework for ing what science is really and are examined comparatively rather than hierarchically . Even the science of race has changed dramatically in the past 50 years . During the Rights movement , many scholars and scientists thought of race as nothing more than a social construction . By the century , race as a social , legal , and medical category had been explored as a result of the Human Genome Project . Degrees of variation came to be debated . One example is lan and David ones What the Use of Race Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference ( 2010 ) which ines the uses of race in the courtroom , law enforcement , and scientific views in attempts to address human diversity in relation to inequities in health and disease without using race as a basis for nation . Matters of race are not settled yet . Forensics , ancestry , testing , and medicine are hopefully pathways to better medical treatments and health simultaneously advancing our conversations about race as a useful category . Anthropological contributions to science debates can be critical in relocating and rethinking the future of western science traditions for variations exist there as Well . The issues relate to the function of Western science , its cultural ascendancy , its , and its universality as they pertain to the charting of science As previously mentioned , anthropologists ing in African agriculture have observed the devastating effects of a scientific preference for sal explanations that override ecological and subsistence knowledge . The assumption that western science functions autonomously is contradicted by findings in archaeology and ethnology , such as the observation that science does not develop independent of the of . Is the anthropology of science a scientific effort or a humanistic one ?

Does it ter since humanistic and scientific are adjectives of convenience that are not mutually exclusive ?

The notion that people in a particular political context could consciously construct a cultural tion should be important to the structurally minded , along with conscious linguistic for those interested in the consequences of differences in school settings .

347 Violence and War The search for explanations for the kind of intercommunal violence seen in places like , Northern Ireland , Israel , Sri , and the former Yugoslavia and now seen throughout the Islamic world in the Middle the understanding of a holistic ethnography . Does it relate to competition for scarce resources , such as oil in the 2003 war on Iraq , or to tion of colonial legacies as seen in in northern Pakistan ?

How do such forces translate into violence ?

Some scholars have invoked identity politics as a prerequisite to intercommunal violence , the implication being that it depends on identity formation that contrasts with another group . An native approach might be to examine the role of the international arms industry and of regimes that encourage hostilities . What kept Iraq together under Saddam Hussein ?

In a word , nationalism . When Saddam Hussein was at war with Iran , all Iraqi , Kurdish , and Christian fought together as one Iraqi people . After the invasion of Iraq in 2003 , American forces used the old technique of divide and conquer by pitting against . A decade later , we have seen the rise of an Islamic Caliphate ( ISIS ) waging war on Iraq and Syria . Gillian refers to the peril of expertise as The Silo Effect ( 2015 ) inability to connect the dots as one consequence of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq . Certainly , no agreement has been reached among anthropologists on issues of violence and sion , especially between those who stress biological origins of aggressive behavior and those who note that humans are not uniformly aggressive and warlike . Human populations can be peaceful or almost continuously engaged in aggressive encounters . The violence between East and West Germany , for example , is explained not by old but by new ideologies associated with the Cold War and the Soviet Union . A nation can change from warlike to peaceful in a remarkably short period . Consider Sweden , which , particularly under , was the scourge of Europe but now has been largely peaceful for many decades . France under Napoleon was the most feared country in Europe , but a century later , the aggressive position had shifted to Germany . On the other hand , ever , humans can also learn to be aggressive , as the record of feuds , raids , tortures , and wars amply . There is no empirical evidence that individuals in warlike nations are genetically more aggressive than individuals in peaceful nations , and the complex institutions of war , which depend on uniquely human organizations , can not be understood in terms of individual aggression ( although conflicts in animal societies can be so understood ) Only human animals make war , and only human animals kill themselves . The current violence in the Middle East can not be explained without implicating states and history . Afghanistan was invaded first by the British Empire , then by the Soviets , and by the Americans in 2001 . All three stated that they wanted to bring development to the Afghans , a better life . What followed instead was violence continuing to this day in the case of American invasion . Thousands have died and sectarian violence has erupted . The word jihad is commonly used in reference to the Islamic state and is sometimes translated as holy war . Perhaps all of the contemporary wars in the Middle East from Afghanistan to are holy , Christian , and monotheistic religions from the Middle East . What we may be experiencing in the early century are wars posing as secular for Christians and Jews and as jihad holy wars for Muslims . It behooves anthropologists to unveil the contemporary scene that has been appropriated by and pundits because the consequences of failing to do so are so great in terms of mass killings and destruction . For some Arabs , Israel is a western beachhead in the Middle East for some Israelis , it is a return and compensation for the Nazi killings in World War II . In 2001 , President George

348 PERSPECTIVES AN OPEN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL Bush referred to a crusade against terrorism . Terrorism is a general word , not specific , but used in carrying out American drone strikes in , Yemen , and Palestinian Gaza . Explanations such as resource wars have been generally avoided , except in joking that if Iraq grew broccoli instead of having oil we would not have invaded . As , anthropologists are to tribute to the understanding of these issues by connecting the Law In the , anthropological research on law and anthropology involved of particular peoples such as the , and Arusha in Africa , the Cheyenne in the United States , the ders in , and the in the Philippines . The first generation of , Max , Paul , Philip Gulliver , Karl , and a local world view . They examined the functions of law , its presence or absence , processes of tion , mediation , adjudication , or retaliation . The generation that followed wanted to increase the ber of quality and local such as those on the of , Mexico , or the of , Mexico , and new locales from Africa to New Guinea and ation was examined Within these places but , when teaching anthropology of law in the early years , the central core was ethnography in However , as peoples who had been colonized by European powers gained independence , the number of new states worldwide increased rapidly , and those states were incorporating the local people into state law . Attention turned to globalization , the diffusion of legal ideologies such as the rule of law to new states and law and modernization . Research and teaching changed and by the latter part of the twentieth century and particularly after the end of the Cold War , students were eager to learn about the new states , legal imperialism , military law , and legal rights . The war on terror was also on their minds after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in terms of due process , fairness , and imposition of laws . Thus , teaching law and anthropology in 2016 bore little resemblance to such teachings in the although documentary films such as Little Injustices ( 1981 ) and Losing Knowledge ( 2012 ) give dents a sense of how much has changed with the loss of local sovereignty . Assigned readings have also changed . One of the favorites is Leach Custom , Law , and Terrorist Violence ( 1977 ) One anthropologist who has tried to analyze the fantasy sources of terror Wars is , a Basque anthropologist , author of many books on terrorism . His most recent is Terrorism the filling Prophecy ( 2009 ) Well into his argument about producing terrorism , refers to a medieval component of policy . He invokes the fear of witches prevalent historically in Europe to understand current behavior and a premodern type of thinking that denies contrary evidence and sees all as either black or white , as good or evil . refers to Pritchard Witchcraft , Oracles , and Magic among the ( 1937 ) to help us understand the belief in the mystical power of some individuals to harm others . Finally , he notes that what was normal and in medieval Europe gave way to skepticism . Wherever anthropologists have studied witchcraft and , fear is of ness fear of In contemporary Africa , according to Elizabeth Colson , witchcraft accusations have increased along with apparently unexplainable HIV Questions of Why me ?

Why us ?

must be answered . In explaining the fear of terrorism in the United States , some have argued that those dots may be a new challenge for anthropologists working in the West . in settings require broader than that of societies in which witchcraft 349 may be taken for granted . In complex societies such as the United States , beliefs based on irrational or illogical thinking are not accepted as part of being modern , or so it is said . Urban Anthropology The interest in violence and war might be connected to the growing interest in urban spaces . The proportion of the worlds population living in urban areas has been increasing over the past 200 years , starting , some would say , with the Industrial Revolution . In 1800 , only about percent of all humans lived in cities . By 1900 , 13 percent lived in urban areas . A mere 80 years later , the proportion had risen to 40 percent , and today it stands at more than 50 percent . The percentages of urban dwellers are est in highly developed societies . One source suggests that in 1900 the world had only 16 cities with more than a million inhabitants , while by 2015 , the number had grown to over 300 such cities and still increasing . New cities are being built as in Thus , it is not surprising that there has been parable growth in urban anthropology . A stunning find in urban archaeology is that of , a city of 83 hectares at the convergence of the Missouri , Mississippi , and Illinois rivers , a city once occupied by some people , larger in the eleventh and twelfth centuries than London and Urban anthropology has both theoretical and applied dimensions and the topics range from tion , poverty , class , ethnicity , drugs , and urban violence and investigates societies in Canada , the United States , Africa , Brazil and other locales . The work is comparative as well as deeply ethnographic and the bringing of rural customs to cities and urban traits to rural areas . For instance , Erik Harms Saigon Edge On the Margin of Ho Chi Min City ( 2011 ) shows how people live in zones of divides in the wasteland of urban industrial expansion , between worlds and transformations linked to global markets . Los Angeles has the largest Samoan immigrant population anywhere outside of the Pacific region . Different customs questions of law , such as individuals who commit crimes when In Search of Respect , the title of an ethnography of crack dealers in Harlem , New York , by Philippe ( 1995 ) Gangs and gang violence make headlines and inspire applied anthropologists , as do new interests in drug and sex trafficking and widespread stress caused by debt and inequalities . Health and Medicine As the reader can see , all behaviors , institutions , and ideas related to human populations are of est . For example , all societies construct beliefs about the causes of illnesses and systems for preserving health . The of medical anthropology includes anthropologists from all sub fields . In many areas of the world colonialism , warfare , diseases , and changes in diet contribute to health problems . societies have been relatively isolated from other groups and have not suffer from the epidemics of infectious diseases that have affected agrarian and urban societies , especially in this age of widespread travel . The spread of malaria , for example , has been linked to population growth and changes associated with food production . Obesity and diabetes have spread with economic ment and globalization , and diseases such as HIV infections appear more in Africa than in other parts of the Cultural factors enter as HIV spreads more often among men who are circumcised than those who are not . Then there are emotional diseases such as , an illness caused by anxiety or fright , or widespread stress caused by debt and inequalities . Underlying explanations of human behavior are based on unstated assumptions .

350 PERSPECTIVES AN OPEN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY CONCLUSION What is anthropology ?

The question can be answered in many ways depending on the particular . A linguistic anthropologist might start with a reference to Boas student , Edward , whose work on Language ( 1921 ) is as good today as it was when he Wrote it . work spanned the subjects of languages and their connections and as they pertain to anthropology , the nature of the study of language from earliest times to the temporary use of speech . Language and culture studies encompass both technical aspects of language and study of language in The founding of the Summer Institute of in the also played an important role in educating anthropologists of all stripes in the techniques of linguistic study whether we were specialists or not . Such broad education would include for whom language is key . Forever , Alan demonstrated the tant but disputed point that folklore is not necessarily transmitted and expressed orally , particularly folklore of the electronic For all of anthropologists and disagreements , we share the anthropological attitude , which values both detachment and involvement as modes of rethinking existing assumptions . Such shared Values have not changed much since the nineteenth century , nor have the social prejudices that anthropologists have challenged ethnocentrism , racism , sexism , and inadequate measures of human worth . What has changed is the World around us , a world that affects who we are , what we study , and what consequences result , forcing us to question why we take the stands we do . Factors external to the profession that have been a critical part of doing anthropology in the United States are still with us and merit remembering . Anthropology , more than any other discipline , has the capacity to generate the kind of introspection that can the future role of human beings on impart the lessons of history , the experience of Homo on the planet . Discussion Questions Laura Nader explains that examining cultural assumptions is the main motivation for anthropologists . Why is this kind of nation important ?

What does she mean when she says that anthropologists should study up , down , and sideways ?

This chapter describes several , or areas of expertise , that have developed in anthropology , including of both science and law . In what ways can science and law be analyzed as products of culture ?

In the conclusion , Laura Nader writes that anthropology values both detachment and engagement . Why is this particularly in a profession that relies on participant observation research ?

GLOSSARY Area studies a way of organizing research and academic programs around world regions such as Africa , the Middle East , East Asia , China , Latin America , and Europe . Coercive harmony an approach to dispute resolution that emphasizes compromise and consensus rather than confrontation and results in the of dissent ( harmony ideology ) and the repression of demands for justice .

351 Cultural determinism the idea that behavioral differences are a result of cultural , not racial or genetic causes . Cultural relativism the idea that we should seek to understand another person beliefs and behaviors from the perspective of their own culture and not our own . the tendency to View one own culture as most important and correct and as the stick by which to measure all other cultures . Functionalist an approach developed in British anthropology that emphasized the ways that the parts of a society work together to support the functioning of the whole . Holism taking a broad View of the historical , environmental , and cultural foundations of behavior . Participant observation a type of observation in which the anthropologist observes while ing in the same activities in which her informants are engaged . Plasticity refers to the human capacity to learn any language or culture . World Systems Theory an approach to social science and history that involves examination of the development and functioning of the world economic system . ABOUT THE AUTHOR Laura Nader is a Professor of sociocultural anthropology at the University of California , Berkeley . Nader current work focuses on how central dogmas are made and how they work in law , energy ence , and anthropology . She has published several books on resolution and the law including Harmony Ideology and Control in a Mountain Village ( 1990 ) and The Life of the Law Projects ( 2002 ) She has also conducted research in the anthropology of science , with a lar focus on energy . Her books Naked Science Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries , Power , and Knowledge ( 1996 ) and The Energy Reader ( 2010 ) are two examples of her work on these topics . She has also ethnographic films , including the 2012 film Losing Knowledge 50 Years of Change , which explores the ways in which indigenous knowledge is vanishing . Nader is a member of the American emy of Arts and Sciences and has received numerous awards and honors including the Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Harry , award from the Law and Society Association . BIBLIOGRAPHY Ahmed , Akbar . The Thistle and The Drone How Americas War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam . Washington , Institution Press , 2013 . Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter . London Press , 1973 . Pamela . Japanese Science and Western and the Limits Set to In Naked Science Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries , Power and Knowledge , edited by Laura Nader , New York , 1996 .

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355 Wolf , Eric They Divide and Subdivide , and Call It Anthropology , The New York Times , November 30 , 1980 , Terrorism The Prophecy . Chicago University of Chicago Press , 2009 . Notes 17 . 18 . Edward Burnett , Primitive Culture ( London john Murray , 1871 ) Franz Boas , The History , in Congress and Science , Universal Exposition Louis , Vol . New York , and Company , 1905 ) 451 . Laura Nader , Culture and Dignity ( New York , 2013 ) 51 . Sidney , Sows ' Ears and Silver Linings ?

The 1996 Distinguished Lecture , 41 ( Antonio De , The Politics Power , Ideology and Aid ( London , 2015 ) See for example Rachel Stryker and Roberto Gonzales , Up , Down and Sideways Anthropologists Trace the Pathways ( New York Books , 2014 ) See for example Ashraf , Writing a History of Power An Examination of Eric Wolf Anthropological Quest in Articulating Hidden Histories Exploring the Wolf , ed ane Schneider and Rayna ( Berkeley University of California Press , 1995 ) See for example Hugh , Nuclear Rites A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War ( Berkeley , CA University of California Press , 1996 ) The Nuclear Borderlands The Manhattan Project in Cold War New Mexico ( Princeton University Press , 2006 ) Eric Wolf , They Divide and Subdivide , and Call It Anthropology , The New York Times , November 30 , 1980 , See for example Ellen Hertz , The Trading Crowd An Ethnography of the Shanghai Stock Market ( Cambridge bridge University Press , 1998 ) and Gillian , Fools Gold The Inside Story of . Morgan and How Wall Street Greed Corrupted Its Bold Dream and Created a Financial Catastrophe ( New York Free Press , 2010 ) Riles , Collateral Knowledge Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets ( Chicago Chicago University Press , 2011 ) See for example Bill , Mutual Life , Limited Islamic Banking , Alternative Currencies , Lateral Reason ( ton Princeton University Press , 2005 ) and Ibrahim , Islamic Banking in the Global Economy . Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press , 2000 ) Charles and Clara . Stories in the Time of Cholera Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare ( Berkeley University of California Press , 2003 ) and Chris Shore and Susan Wright , Anthropology Critical Perspectives on Governance and Power ( New York , 1997 ) Margaret Lock , Encounters with Aging Mythologies in japan and North America ( Berkeley University of California Press , 1993 ) and Lawrence Cohen , No Aging in India , the Bad Family , and Other Modern Things ( Berkeley University of California Press , 1998 ) Laura Nader , The Energy Reader ( Oxford Publishers , 2010 ) The examples here come from several publications by Laura Nader . See Laura Nader , The Explosion The Implications of Rhetoric in Legal Reform , in Windsor Yearbook of Access to justice ( University of sor , 1989 ) Harmony Ideology and Control in a Mountain Village ( Stanford Stanford Press , 1990 ) Civilization and Its Negotiators in Understanding Disputes The Politics , ed . Pat Kaplan ( Oxford Berg Publishers , 1995 ) Controlling Processes Tracing the Dynamic Components of Power and Knowledge 38 ( 1997 ) 71 . For further discussion of Native American with the government over nuclear waste , see jay Ou , Native Americans and the Monitored Retrievable Storage Plan for Nuclear Wastes Hate Capitalism , Negotiation , and Controlling Processes , in Essays on ling Processes , ed . Laura Nader . Anthropological Society Papers , No . 80 , 1996 ) Marc Auge , A the Other The Timeliness and Relevance , trans . Stanford Stanford University Press , 1998 ) Linda Coco , Mortgaging Human Potential Student Indebtedness and the Practices of the State ,

356 19 . 20 . 21 . 22 . 23 . 24 . 25 . 26 . 27 . 28 29 . 30 . 31 . 32 . PERSPECTIVES AN OPEN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Southwestern Law Review , 42 ( 2013 . The two examples cited here are Sharon , and Lifetimes The World Energy Physicists ( Cambridge , MA Harvard University Press , 1988 ) and Pamela , Japanese Science and Western monies and the Limits Set to Questions , in Naked Science Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries , Power and Knowledge , ed . Laura Nader ( New York , 1996 ) Paul Richards , Indigenous Agricultural Revolution Ecology and Food Crops in West Africa ( London Press , 1985 ) Kendall Thu and Paul , Pigs , Profits , and Rural Communities ( Albany State University of New York Press , 1998 ) Stanley , Magic , Science , Religion and the Scope ( Cambridge Cambridge University Press , 1990 ) Laura Nader , What the Rest Think of the West Since . Berkeley University of California Press , 2015 ) Discussion of , Mexico is found in Laura Nader , Harmony Ideology justice and Control in a tain Village ( Stanford Stanford University Press , 1990 ) The , Mexico example is Collier , Courtship and Marriage in , Mexico ( New Orleans Middle American Research Institute , 1968 ) Analysis of these dynamics in Hawaii is found in Sally Merry , Colonizing Hawaii The Cultural Power ( Princeton Princeton University Press , 2000 ) Laura Nader , The Life of the Law Anthropological Projects ( Berkeley University of California Press , 2002 ) Neil Whitehead and , Virtual War and Magical Death Technologies and Terror and Killing ( Duke University Press , 2013 ) See for example Elizabeth Colson , The Social History of an Epidemic in Valley , in Morality , Hope and Grief in Africa , ed . and Ute , New York Books , 2010 ) Additional perspectives on Colson work can be found in Elizabeth Colson , Anthropology and a Lifetime of Observation , an oral history conducted in by Suzanne . Regional Oral History Office ( The Library University of California , Berkeley , 2002 ) James , The Modernist City An Anthropological Critique ( Chicago Chicago University Press , 1989 ) For more information about , see Alice , The Land A Critical History ofAmerican ology ( New York , 1998 ) and Timothy , Ancient America Great City on the ( New York , 2009 ) Paul Farmer , Aids and Accusation Haiti and the Geography ( Berkeley University of California Press , 1992 ) See for example Dell , Reinventing Anthropology . See for example Alan , The Study ( Cliffs , 1965 ) and International Classical Contributions by the Founders ( and , 1999 )