"The essence of capital is its ability to mobilize social labor by buying labor power and setting it to work. This req…"

"The German catastrophe was of course the vortex of other catastrophes : Jewish, French, Gypsy, Polish and Russian, to…"

"Although I wrote as an anthropologist rather than as a professional historian, I think history matters. It is also im…"

"I acknowledge my debt to Marxian thought without apology."

"Our methods were becoming more sophisticated, but their yield seemed increasingly commonplace. To stem a descent into…"

"If history is the working out of a more moral purpose in time, then those who lay claim to that purpose are by that f…"

"By turning names into things we create false models of reality. By endowing nations, societies or cultures, with the …"

"In order to understand what the world would become, we must first know what it was."

"To understand how caste works concretely, one must, however, look beyond kinship organization and ritual idiom to the…"

"Anthropology is the most scientific of humanities, the most humanistic of sciences. (1964)"