in memoriam in the journal which he founded, his legacy was recognized thus: "diamond was one of the first anthropologists to insist that researchers both acknowledge and confront power relations, often colonial and neocolonial, that form the context of their work. his sympathetic portrayal of the arab mountain villages, and analysis of psychodynamics on the israeli kibbutz — as stemming from an incomplete critique of "shtetl" life — was as much against the grain of contemporary research then as it is today. his concern for countering racism found its way into a number of trenchant popular and scholarly writings and, always, in his teaching" ("dialectical anthropology", vol. 16, p. 105, 1991).