Culture Is Public, Because Meaning Is

Learning To Exist In A World Quite Different From That Which Formed You Is The Condition, These Days, Of Pursuing Research You Can On Balance Believe In And Write Sentences You Can More Or Less Live With.

Man Is An Animal Suspended In Webs Of Significance He Himself Has Spun.

I Think Of Myself As A Writer Who Happens To Be Doing His Writing As An Anthropologist

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.

Cultural Analysis Is Intrinsically Incomplete. And, Worse Than That, The More Deeply It Goes The Less Complete It Is.