I Think What's Known About

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.

I Don't Think Things Are Moving Toward An Omega Point; I Think They're Moving Toward More Diversity

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

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.

Most Anthropologists Are Doing Straightforward Ethnography, And Should