Perhaps one could go further and define a society as a “group of people who subscribe to a common accounting theory”’ (Gambling 1978: 2-3). When viewed independently, this critique makes sense. Humans everywhere find themselves in all kinds of “tribes” that need to be studied and better understood. All elements of social systems, such as kinship, religion, and ethnicity can reflect social class. It is particularly wanting in its coverage of recent theoretical developments in cultural anthropology. In her own time, anthropology was a SCIENCE, not a political party.” The post includes a long list of internet memes, blog posts, and other websites that all attributed the quote to Benedict, but with no specific reference to back it up. Some areas of anthropology do focus on the study of remote tribes, albeit in a less romanticized way than pop culture would have you believe. Through the comparative method, an anthropologist learns to avoid “ethnocentrism,” the tendency to interpret strange customs on the basis of preconceptions derived from one’s own cultural background. It seems to be merely myth. And this is a premise which both ecology and anthropology share, which may explain why anthropology is the social science which has made the most use of an ecological approach. and both incorporate theory from many other sources across the landscape of university based departments or disciplines. ‘accounting theory and culture are not readily separable’ (1974: 107) and that ‘“accounting theory is the culture” at least in the anthropological sense. It is never specifically cited, nor does it make historical sense. Yes and vice versa. Because of the discipline’s holistic or relational emphasis, anthropologists were, in a sense, “pre-adapted” to an ecological approach at a theoretical level, even before ecological issues began to become important. Since then, countless mathematicians around the world have struggled to solve the 23 ‘Hilbert Problems’ (ten have been resolved; eleven are partly solved or simply cannot be solved; and two remain at large). No aspect of culture operates in isolation, however. In 1990 [1900], the renowned mathematician David Hilbert laid down a challenge to future generations: 23 hand-picked mathematical problems, all difficult, all important, and all unsolved. But tribal culture isn’t limited to a dense jungle. Much of anthropological theory has originated in an appreciation of and interest in the tension between the local (particular cultures) and the global (a universal human nature, or the web of connections between people in distinct places/circumstances). In a certain sense this is a legacy site that is very distant from completeness and doomed to remain so. It helps outsiders make sense of behaviors that, like face painting or scarification, may seem bizarre or senseless.