July 9, 1999

When Theory Is Everything, Scholarship Suffers

By RICHARD WILK

Like many other anthropologists, I have developed a strong interest in social theory, and a respect for the deep and complex thinkers who produce and debate it. I teach theory courses, read a lot of theoretical works, and have even written a book on social and economic theory. But lately I have been having my doubts. I now wonder if theory, as it currently appears in anthropology and some other social sciences, is

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