Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.