People Keep Asking How Anthropology Is Different

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.

If We Wanted Home Truths, We Should Have Stayed At Home.

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 Have A Social Philosophy; You Have Political Opinions; He Has An Ideology.

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