[MD] Expanding the format

[X Acto]

"After that depressing experience in the mountains he had wanted to give the 
whole thing up and move on to something more profitable, but as it turned out,
 the depression he was feeling was just a temporary setback. It was a prelude 
to a much larger and more important explanation of the Indians. This time it 
would not be just Indians versus whites, treated within a white anthropological 
format. 

It would be whites and white anthropology versus Indians and 'Indian 
anthropology'
 treated within a format no one had ever heard of yet. He would get out of the 
impasse 

by expanding the format.
The key was values, he thought. That was the weakest spot in the whole wall of 
cultural immunity to new ideas the anthropologists had built around themselves. 
Value was a term they had to use, but under Boas' science value does not really 
exist.
And Phaedrus knew something about values. Before he had gone up into the 
mountains 

he had written a whole book on values. Quality. Quality was value. They were the 

same thing. Not only were values the weakest spot in that wall, he might just be 
the 

strongest person to attack that spot."
 
-Lila chptr 5