Anthropology and world peace

Abstract

The pursuit of world peace has long been part of the telos of modern anthropology, although this may not be particularly obvious in the discipline’s teaching on its history today. Taking Claude Lévi-Strauss’s essay on Jean-Jacques Rousseau as a key text, this article reviews how anthropology rose to prominence (post–World War II) as a vital body of knowledge in the making of a durable international peace.