Anthropology In General Has Always Been Fairly

There Is An Indian Story -- At Least I Heard It As An Indian Story -- About An Englishman Who, Having Been Told That The World Rested On A Platform Which Rested On The Back Of An Elephant Which Rested In Turn On The Back Of A Turtle, Asked (perhaps He Was An Ethnographer; It Is The Way They Behave), What Did The Turtle Rest On? Another Turtle. And That Turtle? 'ah, Sahib, After That It Is Turtles All The Way Down

I Never Leave A Sentence Or A Paragraph Until I'm Satisfied With It

It May Be In The Cultural Particularities Of People — In Their Oddities — That Some Of The Most Instructive Revelations Of What It Is To Be Generically Human Are To Be Found.

Believing, With Max Weber, That Man Is An Animal Suspended In Webs Of Significance He Himself Has Spun, I Take Culture To Be Those Webs, And The Analysis Of It To Be Therefore Not An Experimental Science In Search Of Law But An Interpretive One In Search Of Meaning.

We Don't Know What We Think Until We See What We Say.