People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.
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.
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should
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