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It has come to my attention, while I have been away in the wilds of India investigating the beliefs, kinship, economy and political order of the Irulas of the Thiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu, that the age old debate about the definition of social anthropology has again reached the literature. In this investigation I have been traveling between settlements and discovering interesting and fascinating issues associated with the group's relative interconnectedness through trade and marriage among their various settlements. Most interesting to me from a social anthropological perspective is how these groups retain contact, through memory of the indigenous members of their group that have left the fold and chosen to settle elsewhere, either with or without their ancestral identity, alone and in new settlements. To me this should at the very least offer some light on the ideations and outcomes of permanent migration in an era when it is happening more and more, especially among those last vestiges of peoples with common identity being pressured to "modernize."
Though Geertz has always been one of the most active proponents of socio-cultural anthropology it would seem that instead of adding to the character of the definition he simply developed a lengthy list o exclusionary characteristics, none of which seem to allow full exclusion. What Geertz really seems to be saying is that socio anthropology is so much like many other disciplines that it both cannot be separated from them and cannot be included in them. The distinction for Geertz seems to be that the very variability of the discipline creates its appeal and its scientific value as a socio anthropologist can simply look at anything and do any kind of scientific inquiry to constitute original research.
It has been my…
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