"Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in…"

"To know that a human being truly is, he must be examined in the arena where he most fully realizes his nature, thus w…"

"Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant."

"The last bastions of resistance to evolutionary theory are organized religion and cultural anthropology."

"Every culture faces the same fundamental challenges. Men and women come together, children are brought into the world…"

"Our ultimate task is to find interpretative procedures that will uncover each bias and discredit its claims to univer…"

"Modern anthropology has taught us, through of so-called , that the of human beings may differ greatly, depending upon…"

"Before we can apply the tools of anthropology to reconstruct the real history of money, we need to understand what's …"

"Studying primitives enables us to see ourselves better. Ordinarily we are unaware of the special lens through which w…"

"Economics and cultural anthropology … have as their clear presuppositions one or the other of the two states of natur…"