The essential vocation of interpretive anthropology is not to answer our deepest questions, but to make available to us answers that others, guarding other sheep in other valleys, have given, and thus to include them in the consultable record of what man has said.
解释人类学的根本使命不是回答我们最深刻的问题,而是让我们能够接触到其他人在其他山谷中守护其他羊群时给出的答案,从而将这些答案纳入人类言论的可供查阅的记录中。
预测未来的最好方法就是去创造它。
人们可以非常聪明或拥有直接适用的技能,但如果他们不真正相信它,那么他们就不会真正努力工作。