ABSTRACT
The text of this chapter is a translation of a lecture given in French in memory of the French anthropologist Robert Hertz. It contains a defence of anthropology as necessarily involving both ethnographic interpretation and the attempt to generalise about human beings in general. As in Chapter 2, I argue here that the most important aspects of human knowledge must be implicit and I illustrate this by means of an example of the type of kinship that most concerned Lévi-Strauss.
