Monograph Series #6–1995
Publication date 1996
14 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”
Reflections on a weeklong session on function.
Words and Worth: An Anthropologist Interprets Function and Craft, by Margaret Mackenzie; and Paper or Plastic: The Form and Contents, by Nance O-Banion.
“No anthropologist today would make claims to objectivity. It is an enterprise of interpretation, not certainty. We know that inevitably our interpretations are made from our own positions in society.”—M. M.