Culture Is Public, Because Meaning Is

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.

I Think Feminism Has Had A Major Impact On Anthropology

I Had A Hard Time Convincing Students That They Were Going To North Africa To Understand The North Africans, Not To Understand Themselves.

Cultural Analysis Is Intrinsically Incomplete. And, Worse Than That, The More Deeply It Goes The Less Complete It Is.

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