“The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. The second worst mistake is to think you aren't looking through the lens of your prejudices.” — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see it for what it was.” — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
“As a Freudian, I'm not supposed to use words like evil; my business is with instinct, memory, and desire. Nevertheless, I've been wondering, lately, whether evil might exist. If it does, I've been thinking, it might be like what Freud called the navel of the dream, the place where all the lines of meaning the analyst has so carefully traced… — Paul La Farge Copy Share
“Clearly, you don't know much about horror, he said. Horror is premised on the experience of what we do not and cannot understand, whereas… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
“The American id could not be educated, Spinks thought. It needed horror in order to stay awake and to justify its most pleasureful pursuit,… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
“Scratch a professor and you find a paranoiac, Barlow thought. But scratch a dean and you find a con artist.” — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
“The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. The second worst mistake is… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
