Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.