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 never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

Culture is public, because meaning is

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.