Assertion: anthropology | /r/CapableOf | hold by sunk costs
Facets:
value: together
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Long after natural history, moral philosophy, philology, and political economy have dissolved into their specialized successors, it has remained a diffuse assemblage of ethnology, human biology, comparative linguistics, and prehistory, held together mainly by the vested interests, sunk costs, and administrative habits of academia, and by a romantic image of comprehensive scholarship.