. . .what difference it would make to our understanding if we looked at
the world as a whole, a totality, a system, instead of as a sum of self-contained
societies and cultures; if we understand better how this totality developed over time; if
we took seriously the admonition to think of human aggregates as "inextricably
involved with other aggregates, near and far, in weblike, netlike, connections." Eric
Wolf
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