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Anthropology is the most scientific of humanities, the most humanistic of sciences. (1964)

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Everywhere in this world of 1400, populations existed in interconnections.

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Man rises up against nature by means of what we would today call culture.

In order to understand what the world would become, we must first know what it was.

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