One of the results of perspectivalization is the circumstantial and contextual suspension of a literal ontological attitude.

While the English heir to his father’s lands is clad in long trousersed sailor costumes which are most inconvenient for play, his cousin across the channel is just as uncomfortably clad in costumes too elaborate to be suitable—or so it seems from the American point of view.

We met with a party of three hunters from the Sioux river; they had been out for twelve months, and collected about nine hundred dollars worth of peltries and furs.

Kroeber’s emphasis on the small scale of indigenous California social organizations led him to attach the diminutive -let to the anthropologically normative term tribe.