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Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that…
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I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.
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I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a…
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At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the…
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Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.
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To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.
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We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled…
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My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not…
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Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is…
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Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.
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The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of…
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I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a…
— Michael Dorris
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I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
— Ajay Naidu
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Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and…
— Edward Burnett Tylor
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It is apparent that only a certain kind of person will want to make ethnographic films, It will, above all, be those…
— Robert Gardner
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Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the…
— Steven Pinker
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My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
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