My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Culture is public, because meaning is

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

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

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.

To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true (pace Bertrand Russell).

I'm in the business where I can't ever say there's no risk associated with someone.

We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.

They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.