The effect of such real-life drama produced by a superpower in a worldwide theater is not to be underestimated. The scope of this research provides insights as to the manner in which all the bodies of data used here are analyzed. Veiling is set in historical, cultural, and Islamic textual contexts. Social science, like science in general, builds on existing knowledge furthered by new data and original re-analysis. But all bodies of data, primary, seondary, ethnographic, or textual, are amenable to anthropological analysis.
Anthropology provides both primary data and methodological tools for the analysis of any data.
Its orientation is characterized by a specific perspective based on mastery of cultural knowledge.