In Part I of this article (Critique of Anthropology 12[1]), I looked at Martin Heidegger's phenomenology from an anthropological perspective, comparing it with Bourdieu's more pragmatic phenomenology. I suggested that Heidegger's existential analytic was subject to anthropological critique for its failure to phenomenalize the social and political dimensions of human intersubjectivity. In this part, I turn the tables and inspect anthropology using Heidegger's critique of science and scientific language, and argue that as a hermeneutician, Heidegger provides us with the means by which we can inspect one of anthropology's founding assumptions: social relationality.
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