It took me until reaching the conclusion to realise what had bothered me while reading this book: Deep Time Reckoning is an ethnographic monograph that does not take a culturally relativistic perspective on human behaviour. Vincent Ialenti knows what is right and wrong for people to do. But he is not so much a politically driven, knowledgeable advocate fighting for the interests of his tribe in dominant global society, as he is a politically driven advocate fighting to save the planet by urging everybody else in global society to do exactly as his tribe does. This is intriguing.