Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology

I have a love hate relationship with this book. It is as difficult as any Chem, O-Chem or Physics text. It started with all hate...Passe I thought to myself. All this theory is so old school. So then. As this book moved into the Post Modernists I detached myself a bit and then started to get warm fuzzy feelings about the theory and how I was using it in my day to day life and how well all this verbosity and inference was going to and has served me well in my current classes. Months later I find myself digging through it and my class work to find some Foucault for references. With a mix of Anthropologists and many social scientists I think I might be inspired to take on a few units for a minor in Sociology. If you are using this as a school text. Do not doubt the importance of the introductory pages. I would repeat myself but I know if you have to read this book you are a bright soul. Good Luck with that theory class! ;-)