Echolocation in Bolivip

Relativity has always been vital to anthropology, which underwent many of its formative crises and transformations contemporaneously with the development of relativity in physics. Junior cultists are hardly strangers to arguments among myths: they have to grow a ‘skin’ around themselves and other men, in which they can grow their knowledge — that is, combine ‘examples’ and techniques into a version that they can enact. Faced with juxtaposed examples, advice from different sources, and halves that resolve into one, this can be a dizzying experience. The echolocation of inner capacities requires considerable work. Perhaps if anthropology were to develop a doubly special relativity of its own, it might absorb the new epistemological metaphors afforded by a variable speed of light and do so in terms of its existing concerns the multiplicities of meanings deriving from the circumstances of the observer.