Not quite as
laborious to read as the first part, I think Redfield gets to a point about the
modern evolution of anthropology and ethnography in these ten pages. He
specifically gets to saying, quoting other anthropologists as his secondary
source to firm his hypothesis, that what can be defined as a “culture” in the
modern sense has to now be considered something much more niche than what was
previously thought. Using the metaphor of peasant culture, it has to fit
defined parameters that other cultures don’t intrude on, and thus shows that
most cultures are really dozens of smaller ones that amalgamate to form a big
picture.
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