Culture Is Public, Because Meaning Is

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.

The Point Of Literary Criticism In Anthropology Is Not To Replace Research, But To Find Out How It Is That We Are Persuasive.

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

I've Written A Lot Of Books Which Are Written From The Moon - The View From Nowhere.

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.