Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.