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.

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

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

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

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