ABSTRACT
Anthropology is a four-field discipline, which grows on the bedrock of knowledge progressively built on cumulative cross-cultural empirical field studies. The literary field is about creative writing, not systematic field data, to allow anthropology to give insights about humankind. Anthropology is a discipline of knowledge and systematics and any critique is welcome within such a context. It would be most pertinent for illuminating aspects of the account on the reconsideration of kinship, to conclude with reflections on the anthropological gaze–a gaze that is not fully or adequately communicated by anthropologists to those outside anthropology. Embedded in the process to reach the “gaze” is the cross-cultural comparative base for determining universals. This is different from talking about diversity. For it is universality that matters. Diversity is the base through which the anthropological lens draws generalizations about both patterns and uniqueness. Anthropological analysis is based on analysis in the context of anthropological knowledge.
