The physiological substance of human experience becomes the human group’s need for a socially congruent, rational order towards the group’s own structural permanence and integrity, through time–and this very much against the individual’s singularly physical-physiological entity. Anthropological individuality becomes a conceptual attempt to describe a continuum of sorts comprised of these two different structural planes, the physiological, bodily entity of individuality in opposition to the culturally rational homogenization the specific human group requires towards its own permanence, that is finally an imposed paradigm of the cultural self. The possibility, then, of a mutual interdependence of one side in regards to the other, can only be approached through the required positing of a form of biological opprobrium to conceptually account for the true socio-genetic nature of the anthropological individual in what is an exclusively cultural possibility of self, as of the human group she is dependent on and very much a product of.

Harold Seth Knight

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