The eternal return?
►Asia as
the past of the world and also its future
§Mohenjo-Daro
= Karachi or New York: “After 4 or 5 thousand years of history, the
wheel has come full circle” (p. 130)
►What a
cyclical history means for the writer of anthropology
§“Man takes along with him
all the positions he has already occupied, and all
those he will occupy… For we live in several worlds,
each truer than the one it encloses, and itself false in
relation to the one which encompasses it” (p. 412)