I Think Of Myself As

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.

Understanding A People's Culture Exposes Their Normalness Without Reducing Their Particularity...it Renders Them Accessible: Setting Them In The Frame Of Their Own Banalities, It Dissolves Their Opacity.

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

The North African Mule Talks Always Of His Mother's Brother, The Horse, But Never Of His Father, The Donkey, In Favor Of Others Supposedly More Reputable.

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