I've Written A Lot Of Books Which

A Religion Is A System Of Symbols Which Acts To Establish Powerful, Pervasive, And Long-lasting Moods In Men By Formulating Conceptions Of A General Order Of Existence And Clothing Those Conceptions With Such An Aura Of Factuality That The Moods And Motivations Seem Uniquely Realistic.

I've Often Been Accused Of Making Anthropology Into Literature, But Anthropology Is Also Field Research. Writing Is Central To It.

I Was Trained In The '50s As A New Critic. I Remember What Literature Was Like Before The New Critics, When People Stood Up And Talked About Shelley's Soul And Such Things

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

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