I Don't Have The Notion That Everybody

Believing, With Max Weber, That Man Is An Animal Suspended In Webs Of Significance He Himself Has Spun, I Take Culture To Be Those Webs, And The Analysis Of It To Be Therefore Not An Experimental Science In Search Of Law But An Interpretive One In Search Of Meaning.

What We Call Our Data Are Really Our Own Constructions Of Other People’s Constructions Of What They And Their Compatriots Are Up To.

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

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

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