I do know that anthropologists for whom I had respect discouraged any consideration of the work.  One of my quirks is a tendency to attempt to find diamonds in dung hills, especially when the dung hill was created by critics hurling it at some shunned individual.  Perhaps an over reaction to my reading of Thomas Kuhn.  There is no substitute for careful investigation of such an issue.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.