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-===== Collective representations are elements of closed systems =====
-Durkheim and Saussure **do not** agree on everything or say the same things; they **do** think alike in one important way.
-  * Durkheim: Society is like a machine, or like the body of a living organism. It is a whole, and all of the parts contribute to the whole.
-  * Saussure: The synchronic view of language reveals that a language is a total system in which each part (sign) has value (or signifies some idea) because it is different from all the other parts.
-There is no outside of these systems. Everything one experiences is flitered through, or mediated, by these systems and is perceived in relation to one element or another.
-===== Running the maze =====
-{{:2700:2021:media:pacman.jpg| A typical playing screen in the Pac-Man video game (Jones 2013).}}
 ===== The split subject is a universal theory =====
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 ===== Anthropology loves Star Trek back =====
-Both anthropology and Star Trek share a similar kind of imagination of cultural difference.
+Both anthropology and Star Trek share a similar kind of imagination of cultural difference. Anthropology and Star Trek both occupy a space in the imagination of the world found in European and Western societies. They provide an image which is the dichotomous opposite of Europeans and Westerners collective representation of themselves.
 Eric Wolf has argued that anthropology has long assumed that each society it studies is a “static primitive isolate” that exists outside of historical time (Wolf 1984, 394).