By Justin E. H. Smith. “Thorough, scientific anthropology can amount to something close to advocacy: it shows the richness of other worlds, and therefore the tragedy of destroying them.” Justin E. H. Smith defends anthropology as science and advocacy—against both the postmodern turn and the simplistic scientism of Napoleon Chagnon. _____________________________________________________________________ “Among” is a curious preposition. Today it seems to be used mostly to describe the ...
