An Introduction to the Human Story

Let us bid farewell to the childhood of man and acknowledge, as levistrauss insisted, that our early ancestors were not just our cognitive equals, but our intellectual peers too. Likely as not, they grappled with the paradoxes of social order and creativity just as much as we do,. They were neither ignorant savages, nor wise sons and daughters of nature. The stinking hypocrisy of this this chapter is full of sanctimonious insults lobbed at anthropologists for supposedly enfantilizing indigenous cultures or our s by doing things like using categories.