For anthropologists? The worldview of analytic philosophy - the method as technology assumption (the camera assumption)

British social anthropologists since the 1970s probably, are interested in comparing and contracting worldviews. I associate this kind of anthropology with Professor Marilyn Strathern and various anthropologists influenced by her. I shall apply it to analytic philosophy as I have experienced it in Manchester and also for almost a year at University College London, to identify an official assumption (or that is how official discourse of the discipline seems best modelled by us - I prefer that view here). The methods of the discipline are like a technology: much as one can photograph this, that, or the other, one can apply its methods to any philosophical topic, or even any topic (identifying premises and inferences of arguments and inquiring into how sound premises are). The assumption is not discussed, but is surely known by some. It is a you-can't-live-with-it-you-can't-live-without-itassumption, it casually seems to me. You cannot live with it, because you find that if you want to produce the recommended kind of work you will work in certain topics and take small steps from previous literature. But you cannot live without it, because you end up with folk who dubiously say, "Hey, I could not do the work properly in my topic."