those of one race against another, those between one culture and another, and finally those between culture and nature. (2)
details are in bad taste. they expose our infection. just before becoming infected we invented anthropology to house our details. (1)
be an anthropoligist of your own life. what are these ceremonies and why should we take part in them? it is important to keep recording the dialect forms, tracking the idioms. (1)
i exist in infinite sets of belonging, starting with myself and ending with the universe, and my loyalties expand open like nesting boxes.
for us, primitive societies are ephemeral: regarding our knowledge of them, and our relations with them, in fact, inasmuch as they exist for us at all. At the very instant they become known to us they are doomed. (2)
an anthropologist's priority is to expose the outside on the inside. it is a tribe lost by finding it, like desire. (1)
the faster i go the closer i am to the truth. i'm sure i can explain this if i get back in time.
(1)anne carson "plainwater"
(2)johannes fabian "the other and the eye"
(thank you for putting up with my anthropology fetish.) love, becky