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"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
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"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is."
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"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."
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"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
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"One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in tribal societies that had not been pacified by a colonial or national government, particularly if they had an exaggerated culture of manly honor."
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"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
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"It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today."
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"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
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"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
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"Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo."
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"Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races."
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"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."
Children
"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."
Age
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Change
"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."
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"I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like."
People
"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."
Home
"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."
Children
"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."
History
"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again."
Food
"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited."
Humanity
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