The Point Of Literary Criticism In Anthropology

As A Religious Problem, The Problem Of Suffering Is, Paradoxically, Not How To Avoid Suffering But How To Suffer, How To Make Of Physical Pain, Personal Loss, Worldly Defeat, Or The Helpless Contemplation Of Others' Agony Something Bearable, Supportable- Something As We Say, Sufferable.

My Instincts Are Always Against People Who Want To Fasten Some Sort Of Hegemony Onto Things

I'm An Inveterate Fox And Not A Hedgehog, So I Always Think You Should Try Everything

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

I Don't Think Things Are Moving Toward An Omega Point; I Think They're Moving Toward More Diversity