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Commentary Alan Barnard I agree with much that Wilmsen says. However, I disagree with his implicit and simplistic categories of anthropologist as either bad those who succumbed to the primitivist Zeitgeist or good those who remained immune to it. I also disagree with his simplification of the issues. If they have strayed too far towards generalizing ethnography, Wilmsen strays too is his occasional misrepresentation of their intentions and seemingly deliberate misreading of their ill-chosen phrases.
My choice of label has always depended on the audience and the imagery connoted, which differs greatly in the various countries in which I have discussed it: England, Wales, Norway, Japan, and Argentina. The opposite of a foraging mode of thought is an accumulation mode of thought. These are idealized models. Real societies, and certainly real individuals, at best only approximate these representations, and these ideological transitions tend to lag behind changes in means of subsistence.
My original full formulation of the models was for an audience consisting mainly of development practitioners and social scientists interested in development, including many from Botswana. Similar, but by no means identical, ideas are apparent in the distinction James Woodburn e. However, in his view, their failure to distinguish true representations from mystical or symbolic ones leads to an inability to think logically in the abstract.
There he explicitly rejected his statement and substituted a more subtle understanding. In short, I had only juxtaposed them, without being able to account for either their coexistence or their relations. A position which I have never been able to defend well, and in the long run an untenable one.
By limiting myself to discussing mental customs, I took refuge in withdrawal. But the thesis thus extenuated and weakened is no more defensible. Thomas Widlok pers. I first pointed this out in , towards the end of the Marxist era, when I said that we should turn away from production, towards thought, as the driving force of human culture Barnard , I still stand broadly by that view, although these words may still not be quite right to express the meaning.
Wilmsen cites favourably my paper on van der Post Barnard , but accuses me of switching sides in my work on modes of thought. In the 18th century, artists from Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun to Angelica Kauffman express both passion for their craft and the idea of femininity; and in the 19th the salons and art schools at last open their doors to a host of talented women artists, including Berthe Morisot, ushering in a new and resonant self-confidence.
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