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Anthropology is the most scientific of the humanities, the most humanist of the sciences.

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Anthropology is less a subject matter than a bond between subject matters. It is part history, part literature; in part natural science, part social science; it strives to study men both from within and without; it represents both a manner of looking at man and a vision of man—the most scientific of the humanities, the most humanist of sciences.

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History is the account of material relations and their development on a system and micro-level.

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Marxist anthropology is a subfield of anthropology focused on a concern with how culture and power are mediated by ideology and property relations.

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The Peasant is a cultivator subject to the demands and sanctions of powerholders outside their social stratum.