I Think What's Known About

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

Younger Anthropologists Have The Notion That Anthropology Is Too Diverse. The Number Of Things Done Under The Name Of Anthropology Is Just Infinite; You Can Do Anything And Call It Anthropology

If We Wanted Home Truths, We Should Have Stayed At Home.

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.

I Don't Feel That An Atmosphere Of Debate And Total Disagreement And Argument Is Such A Bad Thing. It Makes For A Vital And Alive Field.