Circumstantial Deliveries

"Whether one agrees with Needham's perspectives or not, this book is stimulating, provocative, and a delight to read. It displays sparkling wit, impressive erudition, and absolute certainty in its point of view. The book will appeal to any intelligent reader and assumes nothing in terms of anthropological background. The essays are permeated with a strong, single vision of anthropology, and the program involved—exploring the human imagination and investigating emotion, not just cognition—is a challenge to all professionals."—Richard Price, Johns Hopkins University