“Anthropology is the science of the distant other, the «pre-modern» or the «primitive»”. There are mentioned the great names of E. B. Tylor, L. H. Morgan, J. Frazer, F. Boas, E. Durkheim, B. Malinowski, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, M. Fortes, C. Lévi-Strauss, C. Geertz, V. Turner, M. Sahlins. The work contains interviews to Paul Rabinow and George Marcus carried out by Tobias Reed and James D. Faubion about the past, present and future of Anthropology, as well as its pedagogy and practice.