I Don't Have The Notion That Everybody

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.

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

The Point Of Literary Criticism In Anthropology Is Not To Replace Research, But To Find Out How It Is That We Are Persuasive.

Meaning Is Socially, Historically, And Rhetorically Constructed.

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.