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Material Culture, Cultural Material

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Sidney Mintz
Sidney Mintz*
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Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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‘I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.’

Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language.

When asked to write for a special issue of Diogenes to be entitled ‘Anthropology: The Reluctant science?’ I was reminded of a remark made to me over dinner by my friend of more than fifty years, the late Eric Wolf. It was the last time I saw him: the meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Philadelphia, in November 1998.

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Diogenes , Volume 47 , Issue 188 , December 1999, pp. 16 - 21
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Copyright © ICPHS 1999

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