ABSTRACT
The world, as Hegel puts it, is ‘a unity of the given and the constructed’. It is difficult to determine what is ‘given’ and what are our ‘constructions’. One way is to compare the ways people in different times and places, and even in the same time and place, experience the world. All of us have been, or will be, surprised, even incredulous, when we come across the data of anthropology for the first time, at how vast are the differences between ways of experiencing.
