I Think What's Known About

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

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.

[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.

Learning To Exist In A World Quite Different From That Which Formed You Is The Condition, These Days, Of Pursuing Research You Can On Balance Believe In And Write Sentences You Can More Or Less Live With.

If There's Ever A Place Where You Can't Argue That You Can Put The Facts Over Here And The Text Over There And See If They Fit, It Is Surely In Anthropology