Title: Why bother?
Product review: This is a fairly bizarre publication based on a French version first published 6 or 7 years ago. Unfortunately, this is no better. It seems organised only to provide an outlet for notes on some arcane aspects of French anthropology. Certainly, the sections dealing with American and English anthropologists have been covered elsewhere, and better. I can't see the justification for buying this book and certainly not for the high price, when the level seems aimed at undergraduates, who will get a banal and very standard view of the history of the discipline that can be found in any introductory textbook. A waste of money and time reading.
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