No thinking without asking

On July 19, 1968, Jeremy Boissevain gave a short talk at the Mater Admirabilis Teacher College. Boissevain’s question was about Maltese society’s relationship to questions: Why do the Maltese ask so few questions?Anthropologists are professional four-year-olds: they ask child-like questions about the world, to which they then try to find grown-up answers. Boissevain was struck...