ABSTRACT
Here, of course, we brush up against what has been until recently an enduring pattern in the practice of anthropology, that is, the advantages of affluent anthropologists from industrialized countries in the field. Their research has often taken place against a background of colonial rule and entrenched power differentials, in spite of the individual anthropologist’s beliefs. As Kuper’s (1973) study of the British social anthropologists shows, many of them were anti-colonial. This, however, did not change the objective asymmetry of their social relations in the field.
