Comments on Inaga and Kurimoto Papers For Crossing Cultural Borders

In 1972, with reverberations from the student movement still audible, Rodney Needham concluded his book on the nature of anthropological understanding Belief, Language and Experience (1972) with a quote from Einstein.It is worth quoting here: "The one eternally incomprehensible fact about the universe is that it is comprehensible.The solitary comprehensible fact about human experience is that it is incomprehensible."This is a very pessimistic remark, indeed.Einstein's words have made me realize that anthropology might be an impossible attempt to cross cultural borders.