El antropólogo inocente

"Anthropology is full of pain. First, there is the pain of the fieldwork researcher. This is an odd pain for his or her suffering is taken as a measure of the value of their work. Anthropologists have been beaten and scarified, circumcised and starved, spat on and rubbed in excrement, all in the name of getting inside the skin of local people, understanding the way they think and feel. Pain is the ultimate proof of seriousness of purpose, of sympathy and empathy, the absolute core of the participant observation that is virtually the only intellectual capital of the subject. It is assumed that people who go to Africa or Asia to study exotic cultures must feel pain as the ultimate «being there». You just know that any anthropologist worth the name who was working on Christianity would absolutely insist on being nailed to a cross."

Why human culture drips with blood ...