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>puck up anthropological account of a distant mountain tribe
>50 page preface

>> No.16615677

>>16615664
>50 page preface on how it's considered racist now so you should disregard everything
why did they do this to anthropology?

>> No.16615748
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16615748

>>16615664
>some boomer narration about "the important work" done by X and Y in burger university Z in the 70s
>comments on the history of the method used in approaching the subject
>cannot aim to be exhaustive etc. etc.
>thank you to my wife for her patience
>foreword to the Nth edition
>much has changed since the original publication
>more comments on the "great work" done by boomer M and N at burger university L in the meanwhile
>remarks on the importance of studying these topics in light of current events
>"more current than ever"
>thank you to publisher, couldn't have done it without them
There, I summarised it so you can skip the 50 pages

>> No.16615766

>>16615748
these kind of intros are honestly comfy

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16615803

>>16615664
>Introduction is longer than the work itself

>> No.16615818

why would anyone feel the need to read a preface

>> No.16615831

>>16615766
This, except for:
>cannot aim to be exhaustive etc. etc.
>thank you to my wife for her patience
>remarks on the importance of studying these topics in light of current events
>"more current than ever"
>thank you to publisher, couldn't have done it without them
Acknowledgements should be stuck under the Acknowledgements title so that it can be conveniently ignored.

Also, ALL further reading (not references/bibliographies) should be annotated with extensive commentary, as a list of hundreds of titles tacked on to the end of the book is less useful that toilet paper. I buy books to borrow from the author's experience, and a little guidance through further reading would go a very long way.

>> No.16615842

>>16615831
>Acknowledgements should be stuck under the Acknowledgements title so that it can be conveniently ignored.
based

>> No.16616265

>>16615664
Looks like a femcel

>> No.16616679

>>16615803
I enjoy books like Introduction To Madhva Vedanta by Sharma, where it's 100 pages of book and 200 of appendix

>> No.16616744

>>16616679
Coomaraswamy is also a case like this

>> No.16616760

>>16615677
You're probably talking about the Golden Bough, and the oxford preface encourages reading it exactly because it's outdated you pseud

>> No.16616772

>>16615677
It is immensely funny that the discipline devoted to understanding humanity absorbed a dogma in which any differences between human populations have to be denied or rationalized away.

>> No.16617588

something like that could only have been written by an autist. and if you just "pick up" something like that then you share that affliction

>> No.16617685

>>16616760
I've only read the parts about sacrificing kinda and sacred trees and renewal and shit. The Golden Bough preface should just say it's old and masturbatory

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>>16615664
>philosophical discussions of certain roman emperor
>200 page introduction

>> No.16617770

>>16615664

>anthropology

jesus, who lured you into this?