I Don't Think Things Are

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.

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

[culture] Denotes An Historically Transmitted Pattern Of Meanings Embodied In Symbols, A System Of Inherited Conceptions Expressed In Symbolic Forms, By Means Of Which Men Communicate, Perpetuate, And Develop Their Knowledge About And Attitudes Toward Life.

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

I Think The Perception Of There Being A Deep Gulf Between Science And The Humanities Is False