The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Ruth Benedict
The purpose of anthropology
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If that’s the purpose of anthropology, then anthropology has entirely failed and needs to be scrapped. It hasn’t made a lick of difference.
But, silly me, I thought ‘making the world safe for human differences’ was one of the purposes of manners and morals. —You know, human culture, rather than the academics who study a narrow segment of it.