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The discipline is analogous to a broken fried egg, its yolk running indistinguishably into the albumen of surrounding disciplinary eggs. It is becoming increasingly difficult to see what characterizes anthropology as it merges with the many other cognate disciplines with which it overlaps (nearly all the social sciences and emerging cultural studies – sociology, geography, archaeology, politics, development studies, to name a few). Is it wise today to appear to study everything? The burgeoning literature on the future of the discipline reflects these worries.
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