Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

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.

Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.

I am the place in which something has occurred.

I hate travelling and explorers

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.