“Cultural transmission is a complex affair. From thiscomplexity, however, anthropology seems to have drawn the wrong conclusion: namely, that cultural transmission need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The real controversy comes with anthropologists - not all, but some - who see themselves as studying culture, and they then see… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I had made an early policy decision to drink the native beer despite the undoubted horrors of the process of fabrication. On… — Nigel Barley Copy Share Image
“These people know the reality and laugh at it. Such laughter has little concern with what is funny. It is often bitter… — Elenore Smith Bowen Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image