I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

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

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

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

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