ABSTRACT
We can no longer assume, if we were fortunate enough to live in one of the ‘developed’ countries, that our way of life represents the most advanced strand of progress and that other societies have simply been less successful than ours in attaining it. Instead we now know that other societies have made other choices, followed different paths in search of different destinies. This knowledge opens up new vistas on the richness and variety of what it means to be human.
