(So let me dust off my undergraduate degree in anthropology and spout undergrad-level opinions that are half a decade out of date for a while. Hey, as someone who didn't go onto grad school in the field, I pretty much have this and nitpicking museum exhibits.)

While simply deleting science seems like a pretty big mistake for all the reasons mentioned, one thing I really appreciate about the cultural anthropology classes I took in retrospect is that they didn't attempt to force every aspect of human culture into statistical models that were imposed on the subjects of study by the outside researchers. ::cough::sociologists::cough:: I mean, yes, I joke that I know nothing about statistics because anthropologists think statistics are a tool of the man, but the more I see how many other social science fields do it, the more I wonder if that's not kind of true.