"ANTHROPOLOGY WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE IVORY TOWERS"

I want in this paper1 to make a temporary bridge between the thinking of theoretical anthropologists conducted as it is within the cosy confines of this most prestigious university, and that of the many lecturers and teachers in colleges and schools outside, as well as the mass of intelligent lay public with little formal education who nevertheless aspire to know what you, in your ivory towers, are doing, and what you have to say to them about Man, the social animal. There are analogies in the position held by university courses in anthropology in the past with the idealistic struggles of lesser institutions of learning today, to spread sweetness and light among the masses, whioh I think bear consideration. I intend, therefore, to exploit what I believe to be my marginal position in social anthropology to talk about the educational implications of the subject. It was in this University, not far off a century ago, that anthro pology was first thoroughly establised as a subject by that rationalist Quaker, Edward Tylor. The Oxford diploma is not only the oldest one-yea