Volume 45, Number 16 · October 22, 1998

Deep Hanging Out

By Clifford Geertz
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
by Pierre Clastres, translated by Paul Auster

Zone Books, 349 pp., $25.50

Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century
by Clifford. James

Harvard University Press, 394 pp., $18.95 (paper)

All the human sciences are promiscuous, inconstant, and ill defined; but cultural anthropology abuses the privilege. Consider:



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