The Anthropological Lens a book on culture. The basic premise of the excerpt we read (chapter 1: Substance) was that culture can survive in harsh environments. Generally, the argument is well supported by the examples given, but the text implies a greater statement that it fails to fully support: that culture simply survives. Whether “culture” can be maintained in a poor, war-ridden world is far less important that whether culture can survive in a society of wealth and peace.
The Anthropological Lens is also available on Amazon, but you can read this particular excerpt in this PDF from Cambridge.
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