Stand-up Anthropology

At the 1993 conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth, Marshall Sahlins was invited to provide “after-dinner entertainment.” His anthropological stand-up routine has been published as Waiting for Foucault, Still, most recently in 2002 by . . . . Continue Reading »

Comparison and the Native

Peter Winch argues that any comparison of social realities across cultures is self-contradictory (The Idea of a Social Science, 108).We say X is a social fact, that it is what it is only because of the way social actors use and evaluate it. The “natives” deny that X is anything like what . . . . Continue Reading »