anthropos

I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos. I studied under Kroeber at California and worked with Levi-Strauss at São Paulo, classified several societies, catalogued their rites and attitudes on occasions of birth, copulation, initiation and death... did extensive and well-regarded studies on the rearing of female children in the Mato Grosso and along certain tributaries of the Rio Xingu, and still I did not know why any one of these female children did or did not do anything at all. (didion 'book of common prayer : 5)

is the ethical and reasoning being that was conjured up by enlightenment europeans.

Anthropos the ethical and reasoning being that Enlightenment Europeans conjured as their inheritance from classical Greece (Herzfeld 2002) (kirksey)

anthropos, n.Definitions

anthropos