The work of the philosopher and scientist Aristotle, in the fourth century BC, is especially noteworthy, as his ideas held sway for nearly 2,000 years.
Anthropology was by definition impossible, as long as these distinctions between ourselves and the primitive, ourselves and the barbarian, ourselves and the pagan, held sway over people's minds.
A better way to think of it is all the stuff held sway by the Sun's gravity: the Sun itself, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, dust, and very thin gas.
In many ways, " Flight 93" was era-defining, abetting a reckoning within the conservative movement and prefiguring the take-no-prisoners style of right-wing politics that would soon hold sway.
" Internationals still hold sway in big-ticket, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, " says Anup Bagchi, who runs ICICI Securities, the investment-banking arm of India's second-largest bank.