From Raymond Tallis in the Times Literary Supplement (08.14.02)

“Roger Sandall’s brilliant, impassioned and sardonic The Culture Cult explains among other things how the phrase ‘in our culture’ has come to be used to defend behavior that would otherwise be seen as quite abhorrent… Anyone reading this book will ever after hear the exculpatory phrase ‘in our culture’ with the terror that Bakunin said should attend the phrase ‘for reasons of state’. The ideology of culture has, one could add, replaced patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

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From The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“Fully conscious of arguing against the prevailing trend Sandall writes compellingly, marshalling anecdotes, scholarly literature and case studies in support of his project… He consistently implicates anthropology and anthropologists in The Culture Cult with a brusqueness at once refreshing and disconcerting.”