Friday, August 11, 2023
Anthropology
Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023), p. 320:
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When the creation of a professorship of social anthropology was debated, Hugh Last (1894-1957), the doyen of Roman history and the leader of opinion in the prestige-full School of Litterae Humaniores (of the classics), had roundly declared that "an acquaintance with the habits of savages is not an education."
