IS AMERICA IN DECLINE?

摘要

Alfred Kroeber's 1944 book, Configurations of Culture Growth, is a masterpiece in the field of anthropology. He was a 68-year-old professor at the University of California in Berkeley when his 882-page book came out. Youth favors mathematicians and mobile phone app writers but not anthropologists. They have no way of bypassing the decades of reading and research and deep synthesis it takes to become good in their field.