... 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.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

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.

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.