Marilyn Strathern Quotes:
Ocupation: Professor
Life: b. March 6, 1941
Birthday: March 6
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing to encounter such serious and sustained attention to the building blocks of inquiry—and to the responsibilities thereby incurred. Designs on the Contemporary is a work of profound importance to the philosophy of anthropology. In conjunction with Rabinow’s other works, it creates a nonpareil, a configuration of thought with no equal.
topic: Fashion, Block, Philosophy, Configuration
