Unwrapping The Sacred Bundle Reflections On The Disciplining Of Anthropology

"Anthropology is perhaps the last of the great nineteenth-century conglomerate disciplines still for the most part organizationally intact. Long after natural history, moral philosophy, philology, and political economy have dissolved into their specialized successors, it has remained a diffuse assemblage of ethnology, human biology, comparative linguistics, and prehistory, held together mainly by the vested interests, sunk costs, and administrative habits of academia, and by a romantic image of comprehensive scholarship. In this intense, precise, and sharply written book, six leading anthropologists from a variety of subfields question both the logic and the effectiveness of such sentimental 'holism' and produce a powerful critique of their profession's mythology."-Clifford Geertz, Institute for Advanced StudySegal, Daniel Alan is the author of 'Unwrapping The Sacred Bundle Reflections On The Disciplining Of Anthropology', published 2005 under ISBN 9780822334743 and ISBN 0822334747.