Anthropologists would do well, then, to understand the development of humanity, across the generation and within a person, less as enculturation and more as education. And it clearly focuses attention on the relationships among the several educative institutions and on the effects of one institution's efforts on those of another. In this sense, education is a collective project with individual implications. This, of course, is not to deny that there is much that we do not know about our conditions as human beings. It is, rather, to assert that what we do not know is potentially knowable in such a way that it can have an impact on our collective history.
Research is educational because it is cultural.
Research is cultural because it is cultural. Like human beings everywhere we must confront our environment with all the tools at our disposal, and we must challenge each other as we do so. It is in this spirit that I now discuss half a century of work in anthropology of education.