For this anthropology man is the creature of possibility who needs confirmation by others and by himself in order that he may be and become the particular man that he is.
This is the reason that developmental science is a boundary opening
framework for anthropology, history, cultural sciences and philosophy.
I still have a presentation to work out
for my anthropology course (due a week from tomorrow), plus a paper to finish for psychology (due Friday) and all of the regular course work for that class as well.
At that time — let's term it the long - before - Eat, Pray, Love - days — Ubud was already an established stomping
ground for anthropology types, scholars, and artists, people who came to Bali to learn what and how the Balinese think, and to understand the Hindu Dharma culture and participate to the extent they were welcomed... which was a lot.
It thus indirectly reveals the historical reasons for modern society's «need»
for anthropology.