Anthropology Never Has Had A Distinct Subject

My Instincts Are Always Against People Who Want To Fasten Some Sort Of Hegemony Onto Things

One Of The Most Significant Facts About Humanity May Finally Be That We All Begin With The Natural Equipment To A Live A Thousand Kinds Of Life But End In The End Having Lived Only One

A Scholar Can Hardly Be Better Employed Than In Destroying A Fear.

As A Religious Problem, The Problem Of Suffering Is, Paradoxically, Not How To Avoid Suffering But How To Suffer, How To Make Of Physical Pain, Personal Loss, Worldly Defeat, Or The Helpless Contemplation Of Others' Agony Something Bearable, Supportable- Something As We Say, Sufferable.

Most Anthropologists Are Doing Straightforward Ethnography, And Should