"All I know is that, up until just few years ago, I blithely, and perhaps a it fatuously, used to tell students and younger colleagues who asked how to get ahead in our odd occupation that they should stay loose, take risks, resist the cleared path, avoid careerism, go their own way, and that if they"
"The way in which the gap was narrowed, or perhaps only located and described, is suggested by what, for a working anthropologist, is the most inviting of the tags just listed:"Back to the rough ground!""We have got," Wittgenstein wrote, "on to slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a cert"
"If it is true, as has been argued, that the writers we are willing to call master are those who seem to us finally to be saying what we feel we have long had the tip on tongue but have been ourselves quite unable to express, those who put into words what are for us only inchoate motions, tendencies,"
"In moving across places and peoples, restlessly seeking out contrasts and constancies for whatever insight they might provide into any enigma that might appear, one produces less a position, a steady accumulating view on a fixed budget of issues, than a series of positioning--assorted arguments to a"