ANT&206/Cultural Anthropology
 

 

What difference it would make to our understanding if we looked at the world as a whole, a totality, a system, instead of as a sum of self-contained societies and cultures; if we understood better how this totality developed over time; if we took seriously the admonition to think of human aggregates as "inextricably involved with other aggregates, near and far, in weblike, netlike, connections" (Eric Wolf 1982)


 

                                         

 

          

            

Anthropology is only in the broadest way what the textbook and the instructor say it is. Intimately, it is what students make it mean to them. Kutsche, 1998.