Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.

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

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

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

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain