Culture is public, because meaning is

Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

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

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false