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Anthropologists love to debate if their field is insufficiently reflexive, too reflexive, too relativistic, or too subservient to dominant norms. Enough!

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Like aliens

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How Art Invented Humanity

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Simon Winchester, a charming rogue who traded geology for journalism and became a prolific and peripatetic polymath, has died. He was 82

In the medieval period, curiosity was seen as a largely vacuous interest in novel or forbidden information