India set Jim McConkey on a mission to decipher cultural relativism, impenetrable to most (and inconceivable to many) who haven't experienced it personally. He pondered the question for 35 years, ultimately shining the lights of mythology and psychology on the field of anthropology. He had to. Anthropology couldn't do it alone. The approach is new. McConkey didn't mean to find something new. He stumbled on it trying to understand something he didn't understand himself. Notes from his sources are twice as long as the book itself, and add unrivaled depth to adventures in an exotic realm, revealing as much about our myth as theirs.