Anthropology as jester |
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Authors: | Stephen Gudeman |
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Affiliation: | Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and was formerly a co‐director of the Economy and Ritual project at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. |
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Abstract: | Disciplines from sociology to economics have claimed to be the queen of the social sciences. Lévi‐Strauss asserted the same for anthropology. Instead of competing for a royal position, we might better describe ourselves as the court jester who mocks and mimics accepted behaviour. |
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