Cyril Belshaw

How Do We Know? Applyimg Theories and Methods for Anthropology Cyril Belshaw

Cyril Belshaw likes to explore outside the box. He has been called "the anthropologist of anthropology". He has been told "You are not really an anthropologist." Whether or not such statements are accurate, he does like to find new paths so that often his contributions appear away from the main roads of publication. Thus in the hopes of stimulating discussion, perhaps mew applications, and debate amongst graduate students and colleagues alike he has brought some of them together here. He is now approaching his nineties so that some of his ideas date back as far as the 'forties while some follow is retirement. The ethnographic base for his theoretical constructs and explanations is derived from the Pacific Islands, Canadian society, Switzerland, and widespread travels, influenced by the belief that a major objective of anthropology is to use explanation to improve the world.