Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Harry, Condoms and Anthropology

I have a great friend. For anonymity's sake, let's call him Harry.

Harry truly is one of the best human beings I know. People who know him would agree.

He was the one who first pointed out to me the golden rule of convenient-stores-condom-arrangements: condoms always go next to headache medicine.


But this entry is about his newest theory (and it's not like he doesn't have a new one every day)...

Anthropology...

I always thought Anthropology only really had one actual theory that it may claim its own:

Cultural relativism (which, by the way, I don't deem to be that great of a theory anyway).

The rest of it is mostly applied linguistics, with some stuff borrowed from psychology.

Now, Harry has a different theory. See, he is taking this anthropology class this semester and ... let's just say it's not his favorite class. He said to me that anthropology is the one discipline that actively seeks to conclude that we do not know - that we do not, cannot, understand.

In fact, he says, anthropology is the only subject area I know that prides itself the most at not knowing... "Oh yeah, I am a good anthropologist, I know that I couldn't possibly understand that culture for I am a middle class western white male"...

I laughed. I think he is right.

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ronocdh said...

You win this round, "Harry." *shakes fist*

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