Striving for admission in those exclusive circles so as to gain higher social recognition and acceptance by the chics, anthropologists who were already subservient to other philosophical musings such as hermeneutics and phenomenology, started to upgrade their language and to treat cultures as texts.

So is Whet Moser simply a nom de clavier? There seems to be a real Marooner by that name (different bio from Mo's).

[…] that famous Philosopher of Naples, Baptista Porta; in whose works, although there be contained many excellent things, and verified upon his own experience, yet are there many also receptary, and such as will not endure the test.

The man greeted us with an outburst of invective.