I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.

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

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.

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.