The North African Mule Talks Always Of

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.

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

Anthropology Never Has Had A Distinct Subject Matter, And Because It Doesn't Have A Real Method, There's A Great Deal Of Anxiety Over What It Is

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

It's Always Amusing To Look At How Something Early In The 20th Century Was Written In Anthropology And How It's Written Now. There's Been An Enormous Shift In How It's Done, But Yet You Can't Put Your Finger On Someone Who Actually Did It