Soul, Self, and Society Quotes

“thinkers work to expose and subvert meta-narratives. Modernity itself is such a meta-narrative, with its roots in the European Enlightenment, and its faith in science and progress, which led to, among other things, colonialism and two world wars. When anthropologists made a 90-degree”
― Michael Rynkiewich, Soul, Self, and Society: A Postmodern Anthropology for Mission in a Postcolonial World

“to do good ethnographic fieldwork. For most of the world’s languages at the end of the nineteenth century, very little historical and comparative work had been done because the basic descriptive work on phonemics and syntax had”
― Michael Rynkiewich, Soul, Self, and Society: A Postmodern Anthropology for Mission in a Postcolonial World

“forms of printing and recording. The study of language and communication by anthropologists developed out of the European tradition of linguistics, which usually is associated with disciplines”
― Michael Rynkiewich, Soul, Self, and Society: A Postmodern Anthropology for Mission in a Postcolonial World