ANTHROPOLOGY: What is it?

The posting on anthropology stirred quite a response. Rosa de Pena wrote:

"I remember reading The Golden Bough years ago. As luck would have it, I read a history of the French Revolution right afterwards, and I have not seen the French Revolution with the same eyes ever since. Finding out the Margaret Murray theories, discredited as they may be, gave me the chills. Let's say that when Robespierre said "Louis must die so that the Patrie may live", he was expressing a very Murrayite sentiment (the correct phrasing is "The King must die, and his blood spilled on the ground, for the sake of the land"). If you add delicious details like the Liberty Trees, young oaks nourished by the ashes of patriots and watered by the blood of traitors, and the fact that Robespierre was in power exactly for one year, all I can think is how come Margaret Murray missed that one...."

Ronald Hilton - 8/29/00