I'm having difficulty in remembering. The only book I can locate right now by a French anthropologist on my bookshelves is Emanuel Terray, Marxism and "Primitive" Societies, but I remember the sentence as being the _first_ sentence, and I can't locate it in Terray now. If it's in another book I own, I haven't got it indexed in a Word Table yet, or didn't put the keyword Anthro in! Pound says culture begins with "I can't remember what book I read it in," but senility may begin that way too*. If I come across it I'll post the book. [*And I can't remember what book Pound said that in. :-)] Carrol Diana Manister wrote: > > Carrol, the distinction between having a history and being your > history in sense more than a personal sense is illuminating. I wonder > if he or she means history in a strictly Darwinian sense. Any chance > of getting the name of the anthropologist? Diana >