I Had A Hard Time Convincing Students

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

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.

[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.

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.