I Have A Social Philosophy; You Have

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 Of Myself As A Writer Who Happens To Be Doing His Writing As An Anthropologist

Gender Consciousness Has Become Involved In Almost Every Intellectual Field: History, Literature, Science, Anthropology. There's Been An Extraordinary Advance

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.

Anthropology Never Has Had A Distinct Subject Matter, And Because It Doesn't Have A Real Method, There's A Great Deal Of Anxiety Over What It Is