If We Wanted Home Truths, We Should

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

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.

The North African Mule Talks Always Of His Mother's Brother, The Horse, But Never Of His Father, The Donkey, In Favor Of Others Supposedly More Reputable.

I Have A Social Philosophy; You Have Political Opinions; He Has An Ideology.

Gender Consciousness Has Become Involved In Almost Every Intellectual Field: History, Literature, Science, Anthropology. There's Been An Extraordinary Advance