Anthropology In General Has Always Been Fairly

Learning To Exist In A World Quite Different From That Which Formed You Is The Condition, These Days, Of Pursuing Research You Can On Balance Believe In And Write Sentences You Can More Or Less Live With.

It's Always Amusing To Look At How Something Early In The 20th Century Was Written In Anthropology And How It's Written Now. There's Been An Enormous Shift In How It's Done, But Yet You Can't Put Your Finger On Someone Who Actually Did It

The Way In Which Mathematicians And Physicists And Historians Talk Is Quite Different, And What A Physicist Means By Physical Intuition And What A Mathematician Means By Beauty Or Elegance Are Things Worth Thinking About.

I've Often Been Accused Of Making Anthropology Into Literature, But Anthropology Is Also Field Research. Writing Is Central To It.

To See Ourselves As Others See Us Can Be Eye-opening. To See Others As Sharing A Nature With Ourselves Is The Merest Decency. But It Is From The Far More Difficult Achievement Of Seeing Ourselves Amongst Others, As A Local Example Of The Forms Human Life Has Locally Taken, A Case Among Cases, A World Among Worlds, That The Largeness Of Mind, Without Which Objectivity Is Self-congratulation And Tolerance A Sham, Comes.