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...Socio-cultural anthropology is a stepchild of this European “modernity”, even as it devotes itself to the task of documenting the global socio-cultural diversity which this modernity is destined to destroy.
The great mistake of the socialists and their fatal handicap in comparison with traditional religions (as Ernest Gellner used to enjoy pointing out) was to promise that salvation could be achieved in this world.