An excerpt from one of the books for my anthropology class, written in 1975:
"Since it had never adequately clarified the distinction between a totalising method (in which the formation of parts is explained with reference to a developing structure of determinations) and ethnographic holism (in which different 'institutions' of a society are all described and linked to one another); and since it had in general confused structural determination with simultaneity, concrete developements in the world outside pushed functional anthropology until it collapsed into micro-sociology."
Yeah. Right. Got that?
That was, I'd like to point out, a single sentence.
This is not a happy dance my brain is doing right now.
Ugh. It made my brain hurt and my mind wander.
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This is why people make fun of the social sciences :P
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It's okay. My paper isn't much better. I hate it when they give you a word count...
What...what did he say?
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