4 fields once more

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Ruby writes,

" But since anthropology
consists of both soft and hard sciences, i.e., the four fields, it
seems to me that anthropology is an attempt to integrate the soft and
hard sciences; in fact, to demonstrate the connections among them, which
is what makes anthropology holistic."

Precisely. It may be simplistic....etc, but this sense of straddling science-
humanities gap and the license to travel back and forth across it are, to me,
fascinating. It is, in fact, what brought me into the field.

John McCreery

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