Most Anthropologists Are Doing Straightforward

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

If There's Ever A Place Where You Can't Argue That You Can Put The Facts Over Here And The Text Over There And See If They Fit, It Is Surely In Anthropology

It's Always Amusing To Look At How Something Early In The 20th Century Was Written In Anthropology And How It's Written Now. There's Been An Enormous Shift In How It's Done, But Yet You Can't Put Your Finger On Someone Who Actually Did It

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.

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