In fact, it strikes me that the greatest achievements of anthropology have come precisely when we are willing to make that…

“In fact, it strikes me that the greatest achievements of anthropology have come precisely when we are willing to make that second move: to say, “But are we not all, in a certain sense, totemists?” “Is not war a form of ritual sacrifice?” “Does not knowledge of the logic of Polynesian taboo allow us to look at familiar categories like etiquette, or the sacred, in a different light?””

– David Graeber, ‘Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality”’ (2015)