Culture Is Public, Because Meaning Is

We Don't Know What We Think Until We See What We Say.

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.

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.

I'm An Inveterate Fox And Not A Hedgehog, So I Always Think You Should Try Everything

Most Anthropologists Are Doing Straightforward Ethnography, And Should