We Don't Know What We

Meaning Is Socially, Historically, And Rhetorically Constructed.

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

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

To See Ourselves As Others See Us Can Be Eye-opening. To See Others As Sharing A Nature With Ourselves Is The Merest Decency. But It Is From The Far More Difficult Achievement Of Seeing Ourselves Amongst Others, As A Local Example Of The Forms Human Life Has Locally Taken, A Case Among Cases, A World Among Worlds, That The Largeness Of Mind, Without Which Objectivity Is Self-congratulation And Tolerance A Sham, Comes.

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.