A Scholar Can Hardly Be Better Employed

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 Never Leave A Sentence Or A Paragraph Until I'm Satisfied With It

I Think Feminism Has Had A Major Impact On Anthropology

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

Cultural Analysis Is Intrinsically Incomplete. And, Worse Than That, The More Deeply It Goes The Less Complete It Is.