Journal Entry 1 by LadyLFAB from Santa Cruz, California USA on Monday, April 28, 2003

I think this is the best anthropology book in English today.

Dorothy Lee studied anthropology and received her PhD at Berkeley, married a man who took a post at head of the philosophy elsewhere, and raised four children. However, her husband died 17 years later, and she was left to raise the children and did so not as an anthropologist but as a teacher of home economics. Although later she worked with famous anthropolgists, she remained an outsider from cultural anthropology for the rest of her life.

In other words, she stayed a generalist and made observations that specificists couldn't even think about.

FREEDOM AND CULTURE is a series of articles written in other magazines or books. Each is thought provoking, often funny, and turns your head around with no pain.

That's what a great book should accomplish!