ABSTRACT
Initially, as stated in the Introduction,1 we thought that we were dealing with two sets of issues. First, since ‘the passage of events’ is ‘infinite’, we asked, ‘how does an anthropologist decide where to demarcate a field of data, or a set of purposive activities, out of the total flow?’ Secondly, there was the problem of how an anthropologist decides whether or not to take notice of the work of investigators in other social sciences who are studying the same events by other techniques and modes of analysis. And finally, what limitations did these decisions impose on his ability to explain the nature of reality?
