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Sated, exhilarated, fully funned, twinkled and nicely ironized, after Mary Douglas’ How Institutions Think, 1986. An unlikely date for such British anthropology (then writing from US choice, cosmopolitan academia, Syracuse UP) - the effect is to recast the view of the said date.A minx, using the marginal informality of the lecture genre, which is also a genre for authorization of academic maturity and election, to give herself elbow room.But then also the remarkable - probably fairly provocative - call in reference to Durkheim and fallen-out-of-date functionalisms, coupled with the sollicitation of Fleck (via Merton was it?), 1930s germanophone history of science. Genesis of a medical fact. On syphilis i believe, and translated 1979 - so there’s your motivation for the dialogue engaged, and the history of discussion recontextualised, reconnected.Her mood is fun in any context - funnest now, as I gravitate amongst my first objets trouvés de Fantaisies scientifiques.And the animus : an anthropology of, an anthropological critique of. One of the final, perorational figures : John Rawls’ 1971 Theory of Justice, and « defending the premises of liberal philosophy », 126.An anthropological critique to psychology (theories of cognition), moral philosophy and dilemma tropes ( the individual-vs-society category itself), liberal philosophy and « rational choice » theory (ie economics), information theory, game theory, philosophy of science and sociology of science, history of logic, network analysis, market research, international economy...