Millie Creightonthan choice—that are somehow at variance with continually recreated assertions of what
is “normal” in Japan.
7. This theme also runs through talks and sermons presented by Gomez as the Plummer
Professor of Theology at Harvard University.
8. Wolcott points out that some have posited anthropology as the “science of leftovers”
( 1999 , 10 ).
9. Umberto Eco makes the analogy between art and cultural anthropology when he says
that both efficiently take on the role of imperialism’s guilty conscious: “And so the last beach
ideology develops its thirst for preservation of art from an imperialistic efficiency, but at the
same time it is the bad conscience of this imperialistic efficiency, just as cultural anthropol-
ogy is the bad conscience of the white man who thus pays his debt to the destroyed prim-
itive cultures” (Eco 1986 , 39 ).