Our science arrived at maturity the day that Western man began to see that he would never understand himself as long as there was a single race or pe… - Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Our science arrived at maturity the day that Western man began to see that he would never understand himself as long as there was a single race or people on the surface of the earth that he treated as an object. Only then could anthropology declare itself in its true colours: as an enterprise reviewing and atoning for the Renaissance, in order to spread humanism to all humanity.