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Author QuotedIan Jarvie
Title QuotedRevolution in Anthropology
Date (Year/Month/Day)1968/02/13
Imprint[S.l.] : Routledge. 1967
QuotationI am really turned on by social anthropology and cargo cults. Jarvic's book The Revolution in Anthropology is, I think, important, though I distrust Popperites. But he very smartly shows how Cargo has found anthropologists in an impasse and thrown them into a crisis"”and their response has been a ritual methodological celebration which has, itself, the qualities of a Cargo cult. This is useful and instructive and leads somewhere! Where? I hope to discover.
Quotation SourceThe Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 55-56
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