ABSTRACT
The year is 2053, and the Association of Social Anthropologists is celebrating its centennial with a big conference. By this year of 2053, the term archaeology, too, has become an anachronism, for the subject that still goes by that name has long since lost its association with antiquity. In short, both the archaeo- of archaeology and the anthropo- of anthropology have lost their former appeal. To show why this has come about, the chapter examines these disciplinary prefixes in more depth. In fact, children had always posed a problem for anthropology. Apparently delivered into the world as natural beings, devoid of culture and civilization, they had somehow to be provided with the rudiments of identity that would make them into proper social persons.
