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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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"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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"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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"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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"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
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"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."
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"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
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"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
Mind
"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
Equality
"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."
Culture
"What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in which humanity, speaking a single language, came so close to reaching heaven that God himself felt threatened."
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"My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries."
Nature
"So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents."
Family
"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu."
Science
"The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth."
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