Phenomena that anthropology has labored for a century to investigate according to its own pattern, logic, and imperatives is reduced to political advantage and agenda. This act of reduction does not so much explain culture as get rid of it. This is what the world is. There is no integration. There are no totalities.
Culture is over.
I think the argument is overwhelmingly to be answered in the positive. Things do continue to travel in packs. There continue to be regularities and coherences on the surface of social life that must give us pause. The empirical evidence is unmistakable. But these surface coherences are moored.