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"Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents."
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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."
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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
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"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."
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"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."
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"Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts."
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"I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions."
Family
"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."
Truth
"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
Cultural
"Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents."
Cultural
"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."
Cultural
"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
Identity
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
Life
"Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken."
Past
"In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed."
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"There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research."
Research
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