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Annual Review of Anthropology

Volume 31, 2002

An Inconstant Profession: The Anthropological Life in Interesting Times

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I give an overall view of anthropology and of my career within it over the past fifty years, relating them to changes in the world in general during that time. All lessons are implicit, all morals unstated, all conclusions undrawn.

Keyword(s): Autobiography, Cold War, history, modernization, social sciences, third world
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