by
Susan Sontag
The anthopologist is thus not only the mourner of the cold world of the primitives, but its custodian as well. Lamenting among the shadows, struggling to distinguish the archaic from the pseudoarchaic, he acts out a heroic, diligent, and complex modern pessimism.
beautiful last paragraph. On Lévi-Strauss, outlining his post-Marxist vision of freedom