Nor Must We Forget That In Science

No Contact With Savage Indian Tribes Has Ever Daunted Me More Than The Morning I Spent With An Old Lady Swathed In Woolies Who Compared Herself To A Rotten Herring Encased In A Block Of Ice.

With All Its Technical Sophistication, The Photographic Camera Remains A Coarse Device Compared To The Human Hand And Brain.

The Anthropologist Respects History, But He Does Not Accord It A Special Value. He Conceives It As A Study Complementary To His Own: One Of Them Unfurls The Range Of Human Societies In Time, The Other In Space.

The Wise Man Doesn't Give The Right Answers, He Poses The Right Questions.

The Dogma Of Cultural Relativism Is Challenged By The Very People For Whose Moral Benefit The Anthropologists Established It In The First Place. The Complaint The Underdeveloped Countries Advance Is Not That They Are Being Westernized, But That The Westernization Is Proceeding Too Slowly.