Contrary to what is often heard from colleagues in the political and social sciences, anthropologists have for nearly half a century been very careful to link their ethnographic focus to wider social, economic and political structures.
相反的是，經常聽取在政治和社會科學同事的意見，在最近半個世紀人類學家一直非常小心地將他們的民族誌研究焦點連結到更廣大的社會、經濟和政治結構。